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Enough cash could be raised by Christmas to rebuild a playground destroyed by arson, a fundraising group said yesterday. Pig’s Field Family Connections, set up after the attack on the Pembroke park in April, added that the new playground was the firs...

Firefighters extinguished a car fire on Roberts Avenue, Devonshire last night. A Fire Service spokesman said the Service received a report at 10.36pm that was care was engulfed in flames and one appliance from Hamilton Station responded with four f...

A man arrested after an arson attack at a charity is also being investigated in connection with a string of suspicious fires that has plagued the area, police said yesterday. The arrest was helped by a network of cameras provided by security firms to...

A neighbourhood rocked by a series of suspected arson attacks has staged a fight back – by rebuilding a playground destroyed in a fire. The Pig’s Field play area, on Pembroke’s Bandroom Lane, was razed to the ground in a fire on Saturday, April 10. ...

Firefighters were called out to yet another blaze in Pembroke in the early hours of yesterday. A crew of four firefighters from the Hamilton Fire Station responded to reports of a fire at King’s Court, on King Street, just after 5.30am. A spokesman f...

Youth development leader Patrina O’Connor-Paynter said she is “utterly dismayed” that a children’s playground was destroyed in a fire - and is rallying the community to rebuild it “bigger and better” than before. Ms O’Connor-Paynter, managing di...

Dear Sir, I am sure your readers will be dismayed to learn that one of our best-maintained nature reserves, the Buy Back Bermuda reserve at Somerset Long Bay East, has been vandalised by arsonists. Not once but for a third time, severely damaging som...

A childcare centre targeted by arson attacks yesterday thanked the public for its help to raise funds for a replacement school bus after its transport was destroyed in a fire. Trina Davis-Williams, the parent teacher association president at Happy V...

Two vehicles were destroyed in suspicious fires in the early hours of yesterday. The blazes involved a light truck on Palmetto Road, Pembroke, and a car at a nearby home close to the junction of Bishop Spencer Road and Palmetto Road. Firefighters and...

A man was charged today with setting fire to house. Calvin Trott, 49, was charged in Magistrates’ Court with setting fire to a home in Smith’s and destruction of the homeowner’s car. The offences are alleged to have happened on February 28. The court...

Police believe three van fires this month could be linked. Firefighters attended Fentons Drive, Pembroke, after a white Nissan van was set alight at about 12.05am today. The same vehicle was damaged by fire when it was left on Parsons Road, Devonshir...

A Pembroke man is unable to work for his construction company after his van was set alight in the early hours of yesterday. Police have not ruled out the possibility that the incident is linked with another vehicle fire earlier in the month. Judson W...