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Large pallet yard blaze was arson | |
(about 4 hours later) | |
A fire at a pallet storage yard in Northampton, which temporarily closed a railway line, is being treated as arson by police. | |
Firefighters spent the night tackling the blaze in Martin's Yard, near Spencer Bridge. | |
About 30,000 pallets were set on fire on Monday night and at its height 70 firefighters were in attendance. | |
Spencer Bridge Road and the nearby railway line was closed, but both have since re-opened. | |
A spokesman for the fire service said trains between Rugby and Northampton had been cancelled for a time. | |
Police are appealing for anyone who saw anything suspicious in the area immediately before the incident to contact them. |