Bin fire warning
Reporter: Karen Doherty
Date published: 27 January 2017
RESIDENTS are being urged by firefighters to put out their wheelie bins on collection day - and not the night before - after around a dozen were set alight and destroyed.
The blaze, believed to have been started deliberately, happened at around 3.20am today in an alley behind Lees Street, Shaw.
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