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  • GROOM HELD AFTER PECKFORTON CASTLE GUTTED BY FIRE

    More than 100 fire fighters and 20 appliances spent most of Sunday tackling the "major" blaze at the landmark Peckforton Castle, near Tarporley.

    Up to 100 staff and guests, many of whom were attending the wedding, were evacuated just before 5am, after the fire broke out in a drawing room in a wing of the 19th Century gothic castle.

    Such was the severity of the fire, appliances were called in from four different counties amid fears the blaze would completely destroy the Grade I-listed property. It has been claimed that the fire damage could top