RECYCLING PLANT FIRES THOUGHT TO BE ARSON

POLICE are investigating a double fire at a Newcastle recycling plant.

The force believes the fires were started deliberately.

Emergency services responded to the first blaze in Talke Road, Chesterton, shortly after 8.40pm on Sunday. They discovered a fire within a waste lorry had begun to spread within the premises.

Crews from Sandyford, Newcastle and Hanley attended and the fire was extinguished by 11.15pm.

Another blaze started in the same location at 5am yesterday.

A Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: “We received a separate report of a waste fire within the premises.

“No one was injured in either fire. Upon inspection, the cause was believed to be deliberate.”