THREE heavy goods vehicles were set alight in a Tonge Fold scrapyard.

At around 8.30 last the three wagons were deliberately set on fire in a scrap yard in Jethro Street. All three vehicles were destroyed.

Bolton Station Officer Vinny Redford said: "These vehicles were not scrap, they had been used as part of someone's business. One was a G registration, another was a H reg but we couldn't tell what the registration was of the third one because of the fire.

"They were completely destroyed by the fire."

The fire was contained to the vehicles and did not spread to the yard.