Three people have died in a caravan fire in Newchapel.

Two children, aged one and six, and one woman, their 36 year-old mother, were pronounced dead at the scene of The Plantation mobile home site in West Park Road just after half-past one this morning.

The 35-year-old husband and his eldest child, 10 years old, were treated for burn injuries by paramedics – the child was then taken to East Surrey Hospital.