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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Holly Bishop

Labour MP’s office reduced to ashes after building set on fire in suspected arson

A Labour MP’s constituency office was reduced to rubble and ashes after it was destroyed in an overnight fire on Thursday (11 September).

Officers from Northumbria Police were called to Vermont House, home to the Sunderland constituency office of Washington and Gateshead South MP Sharon Hodgson, following reports of a blaze at just past midnight.

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