Fire in the Copse

Robin took some photos and a film of the fire yesterday, 14th March.

He says it was set in the early afternoon and burned for some time before the fire brigade could get to it.

This was predicted last summer by Julia, me and Andrew. Curt said at the time, he was against a viewing platform. TOE did not fund it: you and I did!!

The police visited the site later and said that it should not be replaced and that much of the twigs and branches left elsewhere in the copse were also a fire hazard. Today I found an exhausted Lynx container along with some scraps of burned paper, probably used to set the fire. Or maybe educational books were being burned and it was just bad luck the platform cought too?

Why didn't the Parish Council listen to people who know the area before doing all this work?

Niki.