Around 50 firefighters are battling a major blaze at a vegetable processing plant in Fife.

The fire broke out at Kettle Produce's plant at Freuchie, in the north-east of Fife early on Friday morning.

No-one has been injured by the fire at the 270,000 square foot plant.

Night-shift workers who were on duty when the fire broke out were evacuated safely out of the building before firefighters arrived.

Nine fire appliances and a support unit rushed to the scene at around 6.30am.

A spokesman for Kettle Produce said: “The fire service are on site and are continuing to deal with the fire which has been contained in a packing area and chill area.

“The full extent of the damage is not known at the current time.

“An investigation will be launched following the incident to establish the cause of the fire.”

Kettle Produce employs more than 800 people at two plants in the area.

It is one of the leading suppliers of fruit and vegetables to UK supermarkets.

They currently grow over 6,000 hectares of crops across the UK and Continental Europe.

They produce more than 50,000 tonnes of fresh produce including root vegetables, salads and green vegetables each year.