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  Mum started house fire in bid to be rehoused while three children slept upstairs

  May 13th, 2013

  A mother has been jailed after setting fire to her home while her three children slept upstairs in...

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  Mum set toddler son on fire after row with husband

  May 9th, 2013

  A mother has been arrested after allegedly killing her two-year-old son by setting him on fire....

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  Melanie Smith jailed for 30 years for five fire murders

  May 8th, 2013

  The woman who started a fire which killed five members of a neighbouring family has been told she...

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  Mum dies two years after losing her three children in horrific house fire

  Feb 7th, 2013

  A mother has died more than two years after she lost her three children in a horrific house fire....

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  Coldplay's Chris Martin set fire to the kitchen - twice - while cooking for Gwyneth...

  Dec 14th, 2012

  Coldplay front man is such a hopeless cook that the fire brigade have had to be called out – twice...

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  Emmerdale child star Sophie Firth, 3, dies after catching her dress on gas fire

  Dec 13th, 2012

  A three-year-old girl who once starred in TV soap Emmerdale has died after her dress caught on a...

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  BlackBerry phone catches fire in schoolboy's bed and scars him for life

  Dec 4th, 2012

  A boy has been scarred for life after a brand new BlackBerry Curve 9320 exploded in the middle of...

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  Mum poured paraffin on sons and set them on fire after catching them smoking

  Oct 29th, 2012

  A mother poured paraffin over her two sons and set them on fire as punishment after she caught them...

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  Fire safety for families. Do your children know what to do if there's a fire in your home?

  You hope it will never happen, but just in case (and there are 40,000 accidental house fires in...

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