An eight-year-old boy has died after fire ripped through a house in the early hours of Sunday morning. The blaze broke out at the house on the Beechwood Estate in Birkenhead, Merseyside, yesterday.

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A fire has broken out at a building in Birkenhead. Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service (MFRS) were called at alerted at around 2.55pm today of an incident on Columbia Road in Oxton, Birkenhead. On ...

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