A woman has been airlifted to hospital with a serious leg injury after a minibus crash in Appledore.

Just after 9am today, firefighters, police and ambulance crews were called to the scene of a crash in The Street involving a minibus and a people carrier.

Fire crews used hydraulic cutting equipment to free a woman from the car, which had ended up in a dry ditch.

The woman, who sustained a serious leg injury, was removed from the vehicle and taken to a London hospital by air ambulance.

The Street has been closed by police.