A FIRE in a skip in an Ipswich road took firefighters just ten minutes to extinguish.The blaze took place in Lupin Road, close to London Road, at 10.

A FIRE in a skip in an Ipswich road took firefighters just ten minutes to extinguish.

The blaze took place in Lupin Road, close to London Road, at 10.09pm last night.

A crew from Princes Street used a hose reel jet to douse the flames.

At 10.22pm, a crew from Bury St Edmunds extinguished a fire among rubbish and leaves in Cranfield Road, Bury.

The fire was brought under control by 10.38pm.