Home raided after TV slot on Concorde
Families flee as ‘volcano’ wildfire threatens homes
CAPTAIN Tony & Concorde RAIDERS stole Concorde memorabilia from the empty home of a dead pilot hours after a similar collection appeared on BBC’s Antiques Roadshow.
Tony Meadows, 84 – who used to fly the iconic plane – and his wife Paula, 83, were found dead in the in a suspected murdersuicide on April 2.
Less than a week later burglars broke into their country house in Bucklebury, Berks, and stole his Concorde collectables.
Police said their home was raided sometime between 11pm on April 7 and 11am on April 8.
On April 7, the BBC show featured another former Concorde pilot.
He was told his collection was worth “£20,000 or £30,000,” by Roadshow expert Lisa Lloyd. FIRE sweeps down a hillside in Wales threatening to engulf homes and businesses in the village below.
Families in Blaenau Ffestiniog fled their homes early yesterday as more than 30 firefighters tackled the fire
Residents from the historic slate mining town in Gwynedd, North Wales, said it was as if a “volcano” had erupted, with burning gorse and bushes looking like molten lava.
The fire was one of several that broke out over Easter after hot, dry weather.
A disposable barbecue set Ilkley Moor in West Yorkshire ablaze on Sunday evening and 10 fire crews were still trying to put it out yesterday.
The fire had spread over six miles and turned swathes of moorland into a “lunar landscape”, causing half a million pounds’ worth of damage.
Fires also devastated moorland at Marsden, West Yorks, Saddleworth, Gtr Manchester, and Tintwistle, Derbys.
In Devon, fire crews were dealing with 12 separate blazes across seven miles, the worst stretching for three miles.
A firefighter from Merseyside suffered minor burns to the back of his head and another from Lancashire sprained an ankle. Both were treated at hospital.
The fire on Ilkley Moor was described as “heartbreaking” by the National Trust.
Speaking from Marsden Moor where he had been helping firefighters, lead ranger, Craig Best, said: “It looks like the fire has spread at least 1,500 hectares. It’s almost like a lunar landscape. It’s very sad to see this level of damage.”
He said the group whose barbecue started the fire called 999 on Sunday evening. Some of the group were “quite distressed” as flames shot up the hill.
Mr Best said: “That £2 barbecue could Village under pall of smoke
end up costing around half a million pounds. It’s extremely frustrating.
“This needs to be a warning that something as simple as a £2 barbecue can cause such an extensive fire.”
The National Trust has been restoring the moorland landscape and the fire had destroyed £200,000 of that work, he said.
Three men were arrested on Sunday in connection with the Ilkley fire but two have been released. A third, Mohammed Zulkifl, 19, was charged with arson over a smaller fire in the Ilkley area.