Cutty Sark blaze analysed

May 21 - A fire that ripped through the Cutty Sark, a 19th century clipper, causes substantial damage to the popular tourist attraction.

The fire tore through the ship in its dry dock in Greenwich, south east London, in the early hours of the morning and police said that they are treating it as a suspicious incident.

The Cutty Sark trust also said it found it "hard to believe" that anything it had done could have set the ship alight and there was nothing electrical at the heart of where the fire started.

Richard Edgar speaks to fireman Ian Allchin who was one of the firemen at the scene of the blaze.