The Regional Press Awards lunch was disrupted this afternoon after a fire broke out in the Marriott Hotel in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair.

Around 200 journalists were evacuated from the event at around 2pm this afternoon and, according to attendees, five fire engines and 21 firefighters and officers were at the scene. Everyone was understood to have been evacuated safely.

Just before 3pm event organisers announced that the awards would be moved from the Marriott to the Grosvenor House hotel instead. But ten minutes later the Marriott was given the all clear.