Dorset firefighters have had to deal with accidental fires at two blocks of flats.

Just after half past twelve, crews led a couple to safety after a blaze was started in the home below them by candles left unattended - at Brooklyn Court on Christchurch Road.

Then just before 9 this morning they were called to Anchor Close in Bear Cross - where the cause this time was a cardboard box left on top of a hob.