M Jagadheesh, (34), and his younger brother M Manikandan, (26), of Ramachipuram near Ammapet in Erode were arrested for torching the thatched house of Hari Gopalakrishnan (32), the police said.

There are about 2,000 old thatched houses in the Republic of Ireland, according to Irish government figures from 2022. Across the border in Northern Ireland, a 2023 Department for Communities ...

That makes it less painful to pull down a thatched house and build a modern one up with slate or tiled roofs, said Lafferty. “It could have taken three years to gather up the stones to build a ...

A woman in her 80s has died in hospital following a house fire, police have confirmed. Two people were taken to hospital with serious injuries after fire ripped through the roof of The Old Manor ...

The main garden has several separate areas and includes a hot tub to one side, a thatched summer house, an orchard, a number of specimen trees and shrubs, and some magnificent mature beech trees which ...

Sixteen fire crews have been sent to a blaze affecting four adjoined houses with thatched roofs. Emergency workers were first called to Low Street in Bardwell, Suffolk, at 16:43 BST. Crews have been ...

Sixteen fire crews were sent to a blaze affecting four adjoined houses with thatched roofs. Emergency workers were first called to Low Street in Bardwell, Suffolk, at 16:43 BST. Crews used hose ...