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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Dorset town ‘like a war zone’ after 12 vehicles burned overnight

A Dorset town has been described by residents as “like a war zone” after arsonists torched a dozen cars in the early hours of Monday.

Police and fire crews were called out to blazes across the Broadstone, Wimborne and Merley areas, as the wave of arson unfolded between 1am and 3am.

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