PSNI treat Ballycastle Antrim Arms blaze as deliberate and appeal for information

The fire at the derelict hotel, which is being treated as deliberate, was reported to police shortly after 8pm on Sunday evening. Officers attended and closed a number of streets in the area while fire service personnel extinguished the fire. All streets have now re-opened.

Enquiries into the incident are ongoing and officers would ask anyone with information about this incident, or who may have captured dash-cam or CCTV footage from the area which could help with their investigation, to call them at Coleraine on the non-emergency number 101, quoting reference number 1487 19/04/26.

A report can be submitted online using the non-emergency reporting form via http://www.psni.police.uk/makeareport/ or anyone with information can also contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online at http://crimestoppers-uk.org/