Firefighters were at the scene of a farm fire in Longcot, near Faringdon, most of yesterday after a silo containing 300 tonnes of barley caught alight.

Fire crews were alerted to the blaze at 2.10am after a neighbour reported it.

A gas LPG grain dryer had caught fire and set alight the adjoining silo.

The crews arriving first put the out the grain dryer but stayed for the rest of the day to monitor the smouldering barley.

Jason Crapper, group manager at Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, said nobody was injured. He added: “It was spotted by a resident in a cottage. It was lucky they saw it and could alert us.”