Fifty firefighters are continuing to tackle a huge blaze at a recycling plant.

The fire broke out at the Junction 25 plant on Stockport Road West, Bredbury, at around 9pm last night.

It has continued to rage through the night with a thick, black plume of smoke still visible from miles around this morning, and Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service say that it could continue to burn for days.

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Group Manager Tony Bryan from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, told the MEN that the fire was expected to take three to five days to extinguish.

He said: "I envisage that we will be here for another three to five days.

"My colleagues last night did a fantastic job but I had the fortune of working in daylight this morning.

"We will be on to the fire quickly and we will start to remove some of the material. The fire should then start to slacked down. My priority now is to deal with the fire and to reassure the public and get the smoke down quickly as we can."

Mr Bryan said that the fire would take so long to put out because of the high density of the 'bales' of rubbish that had set alight - making the flames hard to extinguish.

The recycling plant makes up the bales out of paper, fabric and other recyclable materials before exporting them abroad.

Mr Bryan added: "We have a couple of hundred tonnes of recycling tightly packed into bales which are burning for a long time.

"Ash has been falling on surrounding areas because of the fire. We will visit those areas and carry out a plume test, but where there's smoke, there will be ash in it. We have no undue concerns [for the health of the public]."

Philip Goodwin sent us this video of the fire:

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Reader Paul O'Hagan sent us this video of the blaze at its height:

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GMFRS and police advised motorists to avoid the area, with road closures expected to be in place for at the rest of the day.