Firefighters tackle huge wildfire for third day as '300 hectares burned'

Flames and smoke from a wildfire in the Cairngorms National Park in the Scottish Highlands (Image: Nick Forbes/PA Wire)

FIREFIGHTERS are spending a third day tackling a major wildfire which has led to evacuations in the Cairngorms.

The fire started in heathland at Ryvoan Bothy, near Nethy Bridge, late on Wednesday morning and spread to cover an area of around six kilometres by Thursday afternoon.