Barn blaze 'deliberate'.A BARN blaze BLAZE - A single assignment language for parallel processing. ["The BLAZE Language: A Parallel Language for Scientific Programming", P. Mehrotra <mehrotra@csrd.uiuc.edu> et al, J Parallel Comp 5(3):339-361 (Nov 1987)]. which killed six sheep was started deliberately, it was believed yesterday. The fire caused pounds 20,000 of damage at Fairslack Farm, near West Linton West Linton is a hamlet in the Scottish Borders. It was formerly in Peeblesshire, and is very popular with Edinburgh commuters. , Peeblesshire, and destroyed 50 tons of hay. Farmer Derek Mitchell managed to save 25 of his flock flock 1. a group of one species of animal or bird which eats or travels or is kept together, e.g. flock of sheep, of wild geese. 2. wool or cotton particles or debris used as stuffing or packing. . Fire crews from West Linton and Penicuik battled through Tuesday night to bring the blaze under control. Father-of-five Derek, 54, said: "I can't understand why anybody would want to do this. "The barn is set back from the road, so someone would just not have been passing. "Also, there were footprints in the snow, leading from the road to the barn and back. "Luckily, most of my flock were in the fields. The ones in the barn were young or ill." A police spokesman said: "We are treating this as suspicious and are appealing for any witnesses or those with information about the incident to contact a police station." |
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