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Smouldering butt leads to pub fire alert



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Published Date: 25 March 2008
FIRE crews were called out to a Royal Mile pub after a cigarette butt set fire to timber joists and filled its cellar with smoke.
The fire brigade said the cigarette may have started the cellar joists at the 265-year-old White Horse pub smouldering several days ago.

Licensee Rab Will, 59, went down into the cellar yesterday afternoon to find it filled with smoke.

He said: "It smelled like paper burning, so we checked all round the cellar but we couldn't see anything.

"One of my regulars phoned the fire brigade, and after checking it out, the found the butt. We think it had been flicked from outside and fell into a gap in timber outside the pub. It must have landed and gone unnoticed for days."

Two fire engines were called out to extinguish the fire.

Mr Will, who has run the pub for 28 years, said the damage was minimal.





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  • Last Updated: 25 March 2008 10:58 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Royal Mile
 
1

Alternative (High Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 25/03/2008 12:04:26
If smoking was allowed in the pub, this may never have happened.
2

Stewarty,

25/03/2008 12:20:02
If smoking was banned altogether it would NEVER have happened.
3

Cynicaltalk,

E Lothian 25/03/2008 12:26:22

Selfish smokers strike again.
4

Edin,

25/03/2008 12:49:02

Alternative (High Octane) Fuel Head, What are you talking about.. Ban smoking altogher..
5

Franck,

25/03/2008 13:28:14
Yes #1 had smoking not been banned this may never have happened, the pub may have burned down, bit like the valley parade fire in Bradford 20 years ago.

Why can't you selfish smokers smoke outside and preferably away from the doorway too.You all smell revolting and your rubbish that is left behind is a pain in the @rse too.
6

rabmataz,

25/03/2008 14:44:32
I love smoking.
I hate whingers, lets ban moaning 'I'm better than you' types instaed, the world will be a far happier place.
7

Young Gordon,

The Shore 25/03/2008 14:56:07
I used to smoke during sex but nowadays I slow down a bit.

;)
8

Alternative (High Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 25/03/2008 15:58:37
I see that there are a lot of people who don't recognise irony when they read it.

Never mind chaps and chapesses, just you keep the blinkers on. If you ever catch a full view of life, it will shock you to death.
9

Edin,

25/03/2008 16:15:13
What a werido you are no.8 ! youhave not got a scuby doo...
10

Gorgie_Tony,

Edinburgh 25/03/2008 16:53:31
This is more reason to ban smoking in public completely. Selfish smokers carelessly discarding cigarette ends do it all the time - next time it could be more serious.
11

Incandescent,

25/03/2008 18:22:03
Tony... SHHH!
12

Alternative (High Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 25/03/2008 18:58:01
#9:

Your comment proves the point. You think that anyone who dares to disagree with the nazi state to be a "wierdo".

I rest my case.
13

Stewarty,

25/03/2008 22:27:07
#12
Erm, what nazi state would that be?
14

Plantagenet,

25/03/2008 23:24:43
Smouldering Butt? That would be a good name for a gay bar.
15

why can't I use my own name???,

musselburgh 26/03/2008 07:35:33
Post #14

Excellent!! :-)

For me, people can do what they want. But recently I have had the misfortune to use public transport in the morning, and the stink that comes from some guys that get on - mobile ashtrays, is what they are! That, and the 'smirters' that mill about outside the bars, who blow/cough their fug in your direction as you enter the bar, really annoys me.
16

Jingsitsme,

EDINBURGH 26/03/2008 08:33:20
Smopkers should not be allowed to stand just outside building they should stand on kerb side.

Im sick of walking past the stink and even the doorways smell.

So to the kerbside and that will suit all!
17

the judge-wont budge,

11/04/2008 13:14:02
ban smoking in all public places including the pavement-put the price of fags up to £20 a packet.. thatll sop them!
18

20something,

Edinburgh 05/07/2008 13:51:23
Ban smoking completely? You're all mental.

I'd rather ban guiness because guiness drinkers in bars cause worse smells than smokers. Sometimes I want people smoking in pubs to cover the smells from the toilets/ punters. I'd also ban anyone with body odour, smelly feet, unwashed hair, too much after shave/ perfume, people who eat smelly food in public, farting, burping and breathing.

And I'd ban fat people too.

Ban it all.

 

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