Wishaw MP calls for tighter restrictions on fireworks sales as fire rips through homes

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Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.There have been calls for tighter restrictions on the sale of fireworks following a night of terror on Guy Fawkes Night.Families in Corrie Drive in Motherwell were left with nothing after a blaze understood to have started by fireworks tore through two homes.Luckily no-one was injured and fire crews and police say the blaze is not being treated as deliberate.A heartbroken dad, John MacLennan, told how he believed his home would be torn down as a result of the damage.He said: “We’ll need to take it day by day.

Everything is destroyed.“The roof is gone, the ceiling has fallen in my daughter’s bed.“Everyone is just in shock just now.