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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/28/ firefighters?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

Weston's about two towns down from me. I used to travel there almost every day for the last year or so.

:(

All those fruit machines and arcade games, gone!


video footage
I saw about that on the news this morning, apparently it was quite a fire.
Sad =/
You know when you see like, proto-human monkeys a million years ago watch a tree get struck by lightning and realise they can use it as a tool?

That's basically what's just happened now in Weston. They've only just invented the wheel, for crying out loud.
As soon as i seen the words "Pier Burns", first thing that poped up in my head was brighton lol But yeh it is sad, where i live alot of things have been burning down for insurance or money scandles... Maybe you have heard of it but the Scenic Railway was the oldest Roller coaster in England, yet they burnt it down and tryed making it look like it was a group of yobs...

before: http://www.joylandbooks.com/scenicrailway/gallery7.jpg

after:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HcymhT1itM

(the fact the music is off the movie platoon is a sad touch to that video =( )
Apparently the new owners only aquired the pier in february, and have since then invested hundreds of thousands of pounds trying to improve it, so it surely can't be insurance fraud.

Did they find the cause of it yet?

I'm going to go out on a limb and say "kids with matches" :O
They say it was chip fryer things for feeding all the fat chavs.