Youth charged with wilful fire-raising at Levenmouth club

A 15-year-old boy has been charged following a huge fire which destroyed a former Fife social club.

The teenager was arrested on Thursday, a day after the Denbeath Miners Welfare Institute in Buckhaven went up in flames.

Police said he would be reported to the children’s reporter in due course.

Officers are following a positive line of enquiry in relation to another suspect.

The institute and bowling club had stood on ground between Institution Street and Den Walk for almost a century.

It closed in 2012 after running into financial difficulties and locals said the building had become a magnet for anti-social behaviour.

A planning application was submitted to Fife Council in March to demolish the building and build 22 affordable homes in its place.