Truck tyres torched in arson attack near M6 in Walsall - WATCH

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Around 20 truck tyres were set on fire deliberately next to the M6.

Firefighters were called to wasteland behind Showcase Cinema at Bentley Mill Way, Willenhall, around 11.50am today and battled the flames for more than an hour.

Footage taken by a West Midlands Fire Service photographer captured six-foot tall flames raging away in a ditch beside the motorway while plumes of white and black smoke could be seen by motorists passing junction 10 for Walsall and Wolverhampton.

Two crews, one from Walsall and another from West Bromwich, attended to reports of what was first thought to be a bush fire.

The fire service confirmed the blaze was later suspected to be started on purpose.

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