A man has been taken to hospital after a fire at a ground floor in Headington last night.

Headington and Quarry county councillor Roz Smith said the emergency services were called to Alison Clay House in New High Street.

She said: "I was told that the fire was started in a bedroom and that police are investigating how the fire was started.

"The gentleman was taken to hospital with smoke inhalation but I don't think he was seriously hurt."

She added that all residents were evacuated from the home.

Michelle Archer, a spokeswoman for South Central Ambulance Service, said: 

"We sent two rapid response units and an ambulance crew and a man in his 70s was treated for smoke inhalation before being taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital."

Three crews attended - from Rewley Road in Oxford and the Slade in Headington.

Paul Smith, a spokesman for Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, added: "There was a small fire in a ground floor flat.

"Firefighters used breathing apparatus.

"There was one male casualty who needed to be passed to the Ambulance Service. He was suffering from smoke inhalation."