Fire service called and guests evacuated after 'alarm fault' at major city centre hotel

A number of fire crews were deployed on blue lights to a hotel in Manchester city centre this evening.

The M.E.N understands that guests were evacuated from their rooms at the Doubletree Hotel, near Piccadilly station after the alarm was incorrectly sounded.

Fire trucks were pictured racing to the scene, on the A6, at around 8.50pm this evening, January 20.