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The strange case of the ‘alleged bonfire’

21 November 2020

9:00 AM

21 November 2020

9:00 AM

The council has told me that what I saw was an ‘alleged bonfire’. When I described flames towering into the sky and black smoke curling over the village, that was an ‘alleged bonfire’.

When the builder boyfriend was shutting the field gate and could see a bright blue explosion, what he was witnessing was the start of an ‘alleged bonfire’.

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