A family of three had a lucky escape after a candle left burning overnight toppled over and set fire to a bedroom.

The unattended candle set light to floorboards and a carpet at the house in Buckingham Crescent, Bicester, shortly after midnight on Saturday.

The occupants -- two adults and a young child -- were woken by the smell of smoke and fled the house, which was not fitted with detectors.

Fire crews from Bicester treated one person suffering from the effects of smoke.

Firefighters were later called to a car on fire in Blenheim Drive, Bicester, and to Langford Gardens, Bicester, where two cars and an electricity sub-station fence were destroyed by fire.