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Couple have to call wedding off after they lose £3000 cash savings in house fire in Ellistown

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A couple are being forced to call off their wedding after their £3,000 cash savings went up in flames after a fire broke out in the loft of their home today.

Steve Corns, of Rushby Road, Ellistown, near Coalville, told how the fire destroyed the cash fund they taken five years to collect.

This morning's fire at their four-bedroomed detached house gutted the roof space and is believed to have been started by a faulty lamp in the loft.

Steve, 38, an IT engineer, said: "We always wanted to get married but we never seemed to have the cash.

"We had been saving bit by bit for five years and we had about £3,000 in a jar in the loft.

"We kept it in the loft to stop us seeing the cash and wanting to spend it. We have got three young kids so there is always something that needs buying.

"It has been obliterated in the fire and we have no choice but to call the wedding off."

He said they had booked Rugby register office for the wedding on October 3 next year.

Steve lives at the house with his partner of six years Michelle, 35, and their three children Chione, five, Bjarne, two, and one-year-old son Viggo.

He said: "We had all set off to spend the night at friend's house in Northampton . We had got as far as Lutterworth and I got a phone call from our dogsitter.

"She said to me; 'Can you come home please your house is on fire.' Needless to say I drove straight back."

Dogsitter Laura Goodwin-Dawson raised the alarm after a neighbour knocked on the front door of the house at about 11am.

The 20-year-old, who lives in Ellistown, said: "The neighbour said there was smoke coming from the roof.

"I gave him my mobile phone and he called the fire brigade.

"I got the two dogs and took them outside to safety. It is awful what has happened."

Chris Argent, crew manager at Coalville fire station, said they received the call at 11.14am.

He said we sent two five-man crews to the scene.

"We sent in four men with breathing apparatus and managed to contain the fire and smoke damage to the loft area.

"We removed some roof tiles to ventilate the area. We believe the fire was caused by a faulty lamp in the loft."

Steve said he lost his 600 CD music collection in the fire.

He said: "I had just moved the CDs into the loft to make more room for the children's stuff.

"It is really upsetting but we have to look on the bright side. We were insured but I think we can only claim a few hundred in cash.

"But at least we are all safe and sound.

"It does not bear thinking about what night have happened if the fire had broken out in the middle of the night when we were all asleep."

Couple have to call wedding off after they lose £3000 cash savings in house fire in Ellistown


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