One year ago

The full extent of damage to a world-leading St Andrews University science building will become clear today after fire ripped through it yesterday. More than 30 firefighters from across Fife were involved in tackling the ferocious blaze amid fears of hazardous materials in the Biomedical Sciences Building on the North Haugh campus. No one was injured but the four-storey facility shared by the university’s schools of chemistry and biology sustained major damage. The fire is thought to have claimed years of valuable research work.