AN allotment holder has been killed after a blaze tore through his cabin.
The wooden hut was burned to the ground in just 20 minutes as 15ft-high flames ripped through the plot in Rossmere Allotments, Hartlepool, yesterday lunchtime.
The victim of the blaze has been named locally as former soldier Ron White, who is thought to have been in his late 70s.
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