Two women have been taken to hospital after the ceiling collapsed inside a city centre Wetherspoon pub.

Customers had to be evacuated when debris dropped from the ceiling in front of shocked punters on Monday night.

Four people were assessed at the scene of The Waterhouse, on Princess Street, Manchester, by a fire service trauma technician and paramedics.

Two women have been taken to hospital for precautionary checks by the North West Ambulance Service, the fire service said.

The police said that nobody had been seriously injured, the MEN reports.

One man said that customers were asked to leave the premises while emergency crews dealt with the incident.