‘Huge threat’ to safety after cannabis factory sparks UK house fire

Pictures posted on the station's Twitter account showed a jumble of wires rigged up to a fuse box inside the three-bedroom home.

A makeshift cannabis "factory" was discovered by firefighters after white smoke was spotted billowing from the roof of a semi-detached house.

West Midlands Police said overloaded wiring at the property in Hamstead Hall Avenue in Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, posed a "huge threat" to public safety and had endangered the lives of neighbours.