The second major fire in less than a year at a car dealership site in Gunthorpe is being treated as arson. An office building and multiple cars were completely destroyed in the latest fire on the grounds of Lowdham Cars, in Lowdham Road, which broke out just before 3am on Sunday (August 7).
No injuries were reported - and police are treating it as a suspected arson attack. It comes just months after the business was targeted when a separate fire broke out in January.
In that incident earlier this year, a building containing a soon-to-open cafe and gift shop burned down in what again was treated by police as a suspected arson attack. At the time the owners said they had "spent thousands on it and it was just four weeks from opening".
