{"id":37239,"date":"2023-08-11T16:34:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T15:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=37239"},"modified":"2023-08-11T16:34:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T15:34:54","slug":"fire-at-crooked-house-pub-was-started-deliberately-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=37239","title":{"rendered":"Fire at Crooked House pub was started deliberately, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=31876280\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-37240\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Crooked_House_8061973923_Dudley_Peter_Broster_Commons_Wiki.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>A fire which swept through an iconic West Midlands pub is being treated as arson, police have confirmed.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: By Peter Broster &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=31876280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooked House, Dudley<\/a> CC BY 2.0<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026\u2018at no point\u2019 was it agreed to demolish the whole structure\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>The Coventry Telegraph<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026.Staffordshire Police said last night that they believe the blaze at the Crooked House pub in Dudley was started deliberately.<\/p>\n<p>Officers have spoken to the new owners of the historic landmark\u2026. They bought the pub from Marston\u2019s a few weeks ago, shortly before the building went up in flames\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 Police said speculation on social media was \u2018unhelpful\u2019\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>The pub was bulldozed on Monday\u2026 South Staffordshire Council<strong>\u2026 <\/strong>said it was done \u2018without permission\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The council said it was agreed that three elements of the first-floor front elevation would be removed to avoid the weak parts of the structure from falling. But\u2026 that \u2018at no point\u2019 was it agreed to demolish the whole structure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coventrytelegraph.net\/news\/local-news\/fire-crooked-house-pub-started-27491999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire which swept through an iconic West Midlands pub is being treated as arson, police have confirmed. image: By Peter Broster &#8211; Crooked House, Dudley CC BY 2.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37241,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37239\/revisions\/37241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}