Fire crews spent several hours pulling a horse from a ditch in a village near Halesworth.

Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service was called to an incident in Redisham Road, Redisham, at about 6.15am on Wednesday.

A total of four crews from Halesworth, Beccles and Lowestoft fire stations were dispatched to the scene to help rescue a horse that had got trapped in a ditch.

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They managed to pull the horse out using a Unimog, a specialist off-road vehicle.

A stop was issued by the fire service nearly two hours later, at about 8.10am, and the horse has been left in the care of its owner.