POLICE are treating a fire in Roebuck Close, Blackburn on Saturday night as arson.

And station officer Keith Cunliffe of Blackburn fire station said they were linking it with a skip fire at the same time in Shakespeare Way, which is five minutes away from Roebuck Close in Bank Top.

The owner of the house in Roebuck Close was out but had left a window open.

Someone climbed through and set fire to a bathtub, causing little damage to the property, but leaving it heavily smoke logged.