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The BDH Fire 1988

The huge fire at the BDH factory in the summer of 1988 made the national news the next morning, with anchorman Gordon Honeycombe. 

The report made it clear that the fire could have been a great deal worse if the wind direction had changed or the barrels of cyanide at the factor had been caught in the blaze.