Boy, 12, arrested after huge fire forces 250 homes to be evacuated

It always struck me that the location of that site was bizarre. Was like turning up to Coronation St and it had a small entrance in the far corner of the street that held a rabbit warren of a huge security print factory behind.

I used to be one of the IT managers for the company that owned the site many years ago (Communisis) – it used to print 80% of the UK’s cheque books (including the ones for the Queen at the time as they did all Coutt’s too).

Was quite sad to see them go bust in December (USA company bought them a few years back after I left and drove it into the ground, combined with companies moving to paperless and not wanting bank statements / clubcard statements / gas statements & cheque or pass books).