A LARGE amount of mail was destroyed by arsonists at a post box during the weekend.
The fire at a box at Helmlington Post Office at Helmlington, Middlesbrough, was extinguished by firefighters at about 6.45pm on Saturday.
Meanwhile, firefighters across Teesside and east Cleveland were called to a large number of fires over the weekend.
Yesterday, the brigade doused flames in a recycling container at the Safeway Supermarket in Ingelby Barwick at 12.40pm, put out flames at a garage to the rear of Leaholm Crescent, Middlesbrough, at 9.45am, and extinguished a small house fire in Westminster Close, Eston.
The brigade also made safe a car that had overturned on the A66, near the westbound Sadberge turn-off at about 10.10pm on Saturday. There were no casualties.
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