FIREBUGS struck at an empty school block, damaging a new training centre next door.

The blaze was the latest in a string of arson attacks on the former Everton High School in Manxman Road, Blackburn.

The fire started in a pile of rubbish in the roofless gym block and smoke poured into the £160,000 Youth and Community Services Training and Resource Unit, opened only a month before.

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