A thatched cottage was completely destroyed in a fire which ripped through the roof in eight minutes just weeks before it was due to be tiled over. The blaze took over Bob and Paula Hessian's home ...

A large fire at a property with a thatched roof has been extinguished after fire crews from across Oxfordshire responded to the blaze. Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service responded to the incident ...

Over 50 firefighters and 10 fire engines attempted to battle the blaze coming from a thatched-roof fire that broke out at 5.30pm. However, the 200-year-old cottage in Hampshire, which is estimated ...

That's because her white-walled cottage in Lisburn close to the M1 has a thatched roof. In the 1950s there were about 40,000 thatched buildings in Northern Ireland, but today there are fewer than ...