A huge fire broke out at a £500million Jaguar Land Rover manufacturing plant this morning with 50 firefighters heading to the scene as smoke filled the air.
The blaze broke out at the luxury car firm's Castle Bromwich base in the Castle Vale area of Birmingham at about 8.15am and took over an hour to extinguish.
Witnesses described how black smoke could be seen miles away from the plant amid the huge flames - and the area smelt like burning rubber or plastic.
West Midlands Fire Service sent eight fire engines, three 4×4 brigade response vehicles and a hydraulic aerial platform to the scene off Chester Road.
A witness told BirminghamLive: 'There were huge flames and a lot of black smoke. The whole area smelt like as if plastic or rubber when it burns. There were lots of fire services sirens.'
