Firefighters spent almost 24 hours battling the blaze at Corton Farm on Friar Waddon Road near Upwey after 1000 bales of straw caught fire. The farm's owner, Robert Lasseter plus nearby neighbours and other family members also aided firefighters, and ...
Two thousand pigs have been rescued from a large fire on a Dorset farm. Straw bales caught fire next to a barn containing the pigs on a farm at Friar Waddon near Weymouth at about 18:00 GMT on Thursday. Dorset Fire and Rescue said all the pigs were ...
More than 150 piglets and 18 sows were killed in a fire at a farm in Dorset. Six appliances and an animal rescue team were called to Corton Farm in Friar Waddon near Weymouth at about 20:30 BST on Thursday night. The blaze destroyed the farrowing shed ...