FIREFIGHTERS helped a woman escape her Aston Subdedge home after it caught fire.

Crews from Chipping Campden and Moreton In Marsh attended the fire at 7.16pm last night after receiving a call from the woman's neighbour, who spotted smoke coming from the house.

The woman suffered smoke inhalation in the incident, in which firemen attended for two hours.

The cause of the fire or the extent of the damage to the property is not yet known,