VANDALS sparked a spectacular blaze involving a transit van and trailer, at Cavalier Carpets, Bank Top, Blackburn.

Firefighters believed they released the handbrake on the Ford transit and rolled it into a group of trailers before firing it.

Crews spent an hour tackling the flames and just stopped them spreading to five other trailers.

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.