Firefighters have tackled a spate of grass fires across Medway over the last two days.

They have been called to the Great Lines Heritage Park two nights in a row after fires took hold of scrub land.

This morning (Thursday) they were also called to a fire in Princes Park, Chatham, where around 200 sqm of grass was alight.

It took a crew from Strood almost an hour to put out the flames after their 11.42am call out and the cause is still being investigated.

Crews from Strood Fire Station also went along to the Great Lines in Gillingham at around 4.30pm on Tuesday when 2,500 square metres caught fire.

Crew manager Pete Sanderson said the wind direction, coupled with the fact part of the field had been cut, helped stop the blaze from spreading further.

Firefighters were on the scene for an hour before the blaze was brought under control. It is not known how the fire started.

They were called back to the same spot at 9pm last night.

A passer-by spotted the fire and called 999. He said the crews arrived within 10 minutes and put it out within a minute.

A spokesman from Medway station said it was not possible to tell what had caused the fires.

A crew from Medway station were also called to a fire which had broken out in vegetation off Heron Way in Princes Park at 10.50pm yesterday. They were there for around 20 minutes.

Firefighters from Strood station were called to the Isle of Grain at 5pm yesterday. Half an acre of grass and bushes near the beach had caught alight. They were on the scene for an hour and a half.

A moped was set alight on an area of grassland of Ash Tree Lane, Chatham at 8.20am today. Firefighters from Medway station spent 40 minutes tackling the fire.

A spokesman said the derelict bike could not be identified and that the cause of the fire was unknown but believed to be suspicious as the bike had been abandoned.