Hair salon evacuated

A hairdressers was cleared of staff and customers after a smoke alert.

Around 15 people were evacuated from Rossi, in Pages Building, off North Road and Cotswold Lane in Boldon Colliery, at 10.45am on Saturday. Firefighters from South Shields were called to investigate and found a discarded cigarette behind the building had set fire to paper, with the fumes then pulled through to the shop via an air brick.

The team pulled up floorboards near the site of the fire and used thermal imaging cameras to check it had not spread and to confirm the cause of the smoke.