Arsonists blamed for scrapyard inferno

Arsonists are being blamed for a spectacular blaze which destroyed more than 800 wrecked cars in a scrapyard early today.

Some of the 95 firefighters who fought the fire through the night in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, described flames reaching 150 feet into the air with exploding petrol tanks and gas cylinders causing fireballs which were visible for miles around.