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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
David Clark

Son hopes parents never see charred wreckage of home destroyed in horror heatwave fire

A man whose parents' house was destroyed when a wildfire swept through Wennington hopes they never return to see the wreckage.

At least nine homes were destroyed in the east London village after a compost fire burnt out of control during Tuesday's record temperatures.

George Allen was among those to return to Wennington to see if anything could be salvaged from the home of his parents, George and Edith.

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