Police ‘reviewing all evidence’ on cause of Crooked House pub fire

Staffordshire force investigating how blaze took hold of West Midlands site days after it was sold

Police have said they are reviewing all of the available evidence" on the cause of a fire that destroyed the famous Crooked House pub in the West Midlands just two weeks after it was sold to a private buyer.

The pub in Himley, near Dudley, was completely gutted on Saturday night by a blaze that took 30 firefighters to extinguish, days after being sold by the brewer Marston's.