Inverness pub evacuated after kitchen fire

David Kerr

An Inverness city-centre pub was evacuated yesterday afternoon after a cooker caught fire.

Firefighters were called to The Auctioneers in Church Street after receiving a call about the blaze in the pub’s kitchen just after 4pm.

The fire was extinguished by 4.20pm.

Two crews from Inverness were called to tackle the incident.

A fire service spokeswoman said the kitchen suffered smoke damage.

Church Street and Union Street in Inverness were both briefly closed to traffic while firefighters tackled the fire.

A spokeswoman for the police said nobody was injured and an investigation would be carried out to determine the cause of the fire.