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Marshal Craig, 70, lives on an estate that could double as a set for a post-apocalyptic film set and has been dubbed 'Britain's Chernobyl' - but to him, it's home

Residents have spoken of their shock and fear after a night of terror in Dorset where a dozen vehicles and a property were targeted in a widespread arson attack

Thugs tore through Wimborne, Dorset, going street to street as they torched over a dozen cars in a ruthless late night rampage that left the night sky 'glowing orange'

The Coventry Bees proudly called the Coventry Stadium home for 90 years, but the arena, also known as Brandon Stadium, has been left to stagnate and ruin since being closed

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Kai Cooper, 19, and another teen who can't be named for legal reason, posted a firework through the letterbox of 88-year-old Josephine Smith's house in Romford, leading to her death in a house fire

Fire dog Giddy spent six weeks working with her handler Alex Daw at West Midlands Fire Service and he was so impressed that she lives now with him full-time after they fell love during training

Fatoumatta Hydara, 28, Naeemah, one, and Fatimah Drammeh, three, died in the blaze at the first-floor flat in Nottingham last year as Jamie Barrow pleaded guilty to manslaughter

A 'neighbour from hell' in Scotland set fire to a woman's flat because of a bitter feud, and was later convicted of two charges of wilful fire-raising in Hamilton, Lanarkshire in May and August 2021

TOWIE's Elliot Wright has been forced to shut his restaurant after a doorman lost his life after intervening in an argument between customers

A mum and son who were seen celebrating while they torched a houseboat belonging to her ex-boyfriend in a 'nasty' act of revenge over claims of cheating have been jailed

Jackie Lloyd and her son Adam went to her ex's barge in Cheshire, to get some photos back, but ended up trashing it and burning it down in a horrific revenge attack

Tiffany Regis, 15, died in a fire at a block of flats in Beckton, east London, on Thursday evening. Police are treating the blaze as arson

Tiffany Regis, 14, was named locally as the teenager who died in a flat fire in Beckton, east London, which left five others injured. A 16-year-old boy has been arrested and later released

The mum of Eleanor Williams had her car torched in a suspected arson attack. Williams was jailed earlier this month for falsely accusing three men of raping her and mum Allison Johnston's car became engulfed in flames earlier this week

The man is being treated for serious burns after an arsonist sprayed him with liquid then set him on fire whilst he was walking home from a mosque in Birmingham

According to the Ministry of Justice, only 71,138 community sentences were handed out in 2021 - down from 189,333 in 2010

The images, taken of Hellingly Hospital, East Sussex reveals the chilling remains of what life was like in a psychiatric hospital. Opened in 1898, the asylum was built to combat overcrowding in the Sussex County Asylum

A teenager, now 16, has admitted he was "very stupid and reckless" after causing a fire at a barn in Eynsham, Oxfordshire, that led to £1million of damage, and he received a fine of just £61

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei confirmed thousands will be pardoned or have their sentences dramatically reduced after four months of protests saw 522 Iranians killed

Janie Ann Peckitt tried to set fire to a man's flat in Grimsby after she felt he betrayed her following only two dates - but she posted the burning rag through the wrong letterbox

Police and emergency services rushed to the street in Goole, Yorkshire, after a gas explosion set homes on fire and tore a hole in a terraced property, with families evacuated

Cheryl Duggan from Gateshead had been struggling to cope with her life, and took the extreme step in a suicide attempt, telling her children to leave the house first

Figures obtained by the Sunday Mirror found 3,486 suspects aged over 70 were detained in the year 2021-22. That is up by almost a quarter in four years, from 2,845 in 2018

Vessels worth millions of pounds are feared to have been destroyed in a huge fire that ripped through a boat storage facility in the Costa del Sol holiday resort of Marbella, with Brit boat owners expected to be among those suffering losses