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Fire destroys 140 cars at site used by Gatwick passengers

A man has been arrested on suspicion of arson after the blaze at Caldyne Business Park in Crawley.

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#2289
First seen
24 Aug 2026, 11:40 UTC
Last checked
25 Aug 2026, 07:56 UTC
Version history
4 versions
Current fingerprint
40f1c6b942ff...9c319b
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Publisher layer

Recorded article metadata

Image URL supplied by BBC News England.
Publisher
BBC News England
Country
England / United Kingdom
Source published
24 Aug 2026, 18:54 UTC
Source updated
No update timestamp supplied
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Section
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Source-supplied excerpt
A man has been arrested on suspicion of arson after the blaze at Caldyne Business Park in Crawley.
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  1. 4
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    Fire destroys 140 cars at site used by Gatwick passengers

    A man has been arrested on suspicion of arson after the blaze at Caldyne Business Park in Crawley.

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    Revision observed

    Fire destroys 140 cars at site used by Gatwick passengers

    A man has been arrested on suspicion of arson after the blaze at Caldyne Business Park in Crawley.

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    Fire destroys 140 cars at site used by Gatwick passengers

    A man has been arrested on suspicion of arson after the blaze at Caldyne Business Park in Crawley.

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    Initial capture

    Fire destroys 140 cars at Gatwick Airport parking site

    A man is arrested on suspicion of arson after the blaze at Caldyne Business Park in Crawley.

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Interpretation layer

Labels with declared origins

Not an adjudication.

Publisher categories are copied from source metadata. Machine signals report observable wording or format and do not determine truth, intent, ethics, or wrongdoing.

  • machine content-type Reported news observable-rules-v1 / 70% rule confidence
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Reception snapshots

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Comment counts and samples remain absent until a lawful, source-specific capture method is reviewed. Absence is recorded instead of estimated.

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Evidence layer

Capture provenance

Capture ID
#2093
Observed
24 Aug 2026, 18:55 UTC
HTTP result
200 / parsed
Raw payload
18,321 bytes, private gzip evidence
Collector
news-ledger/0.1
Public boundary
metadata and excerpt