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Angela -- together with her daughters aged five and 10 -- decided to evacuate after Russia started flying explosive drones near their home, some of which set fire to cars.

In 1830, so many British whaling ships wrecked in the nearby Melville Bay that a thousand men were left stranded on the ice, where they set fire to their broken ships and drank heavily from rum casks for weeks until they were rescued.

They set fire to Parliament, the Supreme Court and political party offices, drove the elected prime minister and his cabinet out of office, and installed an interim prime minister chosen by protesters in a Discord chat room.

It said that protesters had attacked the BJP's local office, set fire to the building and torched a police vehicle, injuring at least 30 police personnel.

The former childminder from Northampton, who is married to a Conservative councillor, had posted an abhorrent message on X, calling for people to "set fire" to hotels housing asylum seekers following the murder of three young girls at a dance class in Southport in July 2024.