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Blaze rips through derelict building
9:39am Wednesday 16th July 2008
Firefighters are investigating a blaze that broke out at a derelict building in Didcot last night.
Fire crews from Didcot and Abingdon were called to Royal Berkshire Court in Green Road at 7.45pm.
Two first-floor flats and the roof of the building were alight.
Six firefighters wearing specialist breathing equipment used two jets to extinguish the blaze.
Meanwhile, firefighters from Rewley Road, Oxford, tackled a car fire in the entrance to Oxford Science Park in Grenoble Road during shortly in the early hours today.
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