As they drove off, the perfect manicured lawn of the Marylands guesthouse next door caught alight almost instantaneously, as if the fire itself was liquid, spilling across its surface.
I recall seeing a play in which one had to smoke a large Cuban cigar; his hands shook so much that he dropped the lighted match down the front of his sports shirt, setting his chest hair alight.
In east Belfast, a passing po lice patrol rescued two elderly Protestant sisters when a petrol bomb set their home alight.
Last year, the Maltese army was deployed during the spring shoot after recent years in which naturalists had their cars set alight and a BirdLife Malta warden was shot in the face.
Presumably working on the assumption that, if Cowell touches it, any old shit will turn to gold, the industry has a right to be baffled as to why a film about a talking dog has failed to set the multiplexes alight.
Meanwhile, Small drove two miles to a warehouse car park, where he set himself alight inside his car.
Osborne didn't set the heather alight, but nor did he intend to.
Network Rail said that by 10.30am on 27 December Finsbury Park had become so crowded that passengers on arriving trains were not able to alight.
On Wednesday evening the Police Service of Northern Ireland had to fire baton rounds to disperse a mob of up to 1,000 loyalists in Carrickfergus, East Antrim after the local Alliance constituency office there was set alight.
On Monday evening, I watched people mindlessly destroy the Pembury estate in Hackney, where I live – setting cars alight, destroying the local newsagents and damaging nearby buildings.
Her limbs, fingers and dental arch were removed, and her body set alight.
