Church fire probe fails to discover cause
A forensic investigation has failed to establish the cause of a fire which devastated a Lincoln church.
Fire swept through St Matthew's Church on Boultham Park Road, Lincoln in the early hours of last Saturday morning, resulting in several residents being evacuated from their homes.
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St Matthew's Church ablaze
The city's Islamic Association had just been given planning permission to convert the building into a mosque and local architect David Glew had completed interior drawings.
Detective Chief Inspector Stuart Morrison, said: "The forensic investigation has not been successful in identifying the exact cause or the seat of the fire.
"We would like to thank the residents who have helped with our house-to-house enquiries so far."
"We are once again appealing to members of the public to come forward if they saw anything significant in the area around the time of the fire that could help in our investigation."
Anyone with information about the fire should call Lincolnshire Police on (01522) 882222 quoting incident number 48 of August 30.
For more news stories, see Saturday's Lincolnshire Echo.
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by TP, lincs
Wednesday, September 24 2008, 10:35PM
“Mick,you've completely missed the point that muslims have been living in Lincoln for decades...in fact you didn't even know it,and the original mosque has been around for decades too....There are no "muslim only" areas,or ghettos that have sprung up.It just goes to prove all your paranoia is unfounded. As for the situation in Canada,I think it reflects on the fact that integration is a 2 way process,..+having been to Canada myself I'd agree that Canadians are more tolerant and less paranoid about others.”
by Well, Said
Wednesday, September 24 2008, 10:25AM
“It's still on it.
You're still locked into this idea that a Mosque will be built in the area and ergo turn into islamabad. The guys going already live in Lincoln and have intergrated pretty well given that there are none of these areas you mention where there is no intergration. What happens in Canada has little, or indeed nothing, to do with what happens in Britian. There was a time when Britishness was defined by it always taking a different stand point to the rest of the world such as be protestant when all around were Catholic, and allowing for differences.”
by Mick, Canada
Tuesday, September 23 2008, 3:19PM
“Plus it would be nice to cary this conversation on somewhere else where it might mean something and the council might be able to see all the different views on this.
As this has gone off the official echo website now.”
by Mick, Canada
Tuesday, September 23 2008, 3:15PM
“Well said,well said but pure nonsense you know if there is four or five hundred people going to this place in this day and age at least fifty percent are going to be driving be realistic.
The only time that you will see people not driving there is when the area ends upthe same as these other towns and cities that were mentioned earlier then i agree they wont need cars will they.
All i`m saying is by forcing the people in that area to accept this it is going to create racsism and you know it.
Like i said the town i live in in Canada on the outskirts of town there is beutiful huge mosque lots of parking even been invited there a couple of times but the people who go there have integrated into every community all over town and everyone gets along about time England learnt some lessons from Canada that work.
Kepp doing the same thing over and over you get the same results but maybe thats what you would like to see try change you might like it.”
by Well, Said
Tuesday, September 23 2008, 8:43AM
“Actually Mick their rights are as outlined earlier. They have the chance to lodge a complaint with the council, such is democracy over here. What if they decided that they didn't need cars? Would parking still be the issue? Or is parking a nice cover for other feelings? If someone does something or says something that is racist, don't be shocked when they get called racist.”