Shropshire firefighters carried out an exercise last night to practice their firefighting skills attending a rural farmhouse "fire".
Firefighters from Craven Arms Fire Station were called out to the scene at an empty cottage at Corfton Farm in Corvedale Road which had been pumped full of white cosmetic smoke to recreate as near as possible the conditions of a house fire.
Farmer Stephen Povall, a South Shropshire parish councillor who owns the cottage, donated the building for more