IN PICTURES: Firefighters battle blaze at derelict industrial unit

Fire crews are tackling a fire at a derelict industrial site in Tipton.

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Crews from Tipton, Dudley, and Oldbury Fire Stations went out to the unit, on Horsley Heath, Tipton, after receiving calls just after 8pm.

A spokesman for West Midlands Fire Control said: "The fire has started from a large quantity of compacted plastic refuse within a disused 8 metre by 20 metre single storey factory unit.

"Crews from Dudley and Tipton are currently containing the fire."