Harrison Ford has a broken ankle, reports suggest, after being injured on the set of the latest Star Wars film being made in Buckinghamshire.

The 71-year-old star injured his ankle at Pinewood Studios where the latest instalment of the famous franchise – Star Wars: Episode VII – is being filmed.

Disney, which owns Lucasfilm, the company behind Star Wars, confirmed that the Hollywood A-lister was airlifted to hospital in Oxford after the incident, which police said involved a garage door.

The movie is set for release in December next year, but it is not yet known if filming will suffer a setback as a result of Ford’s injury.

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