The Surrey House Hotel in Blackpool caught fire on the today (24th January 2010) morning.

The Fire and Rescue Services were called to the ground floor blaze just before 8am.  The hotel and the neighbouring buildings were evacuated and thankfully noone was hurt in the fire which took over 30 fire-fighters to get under control.

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