From the BBC:
A huge fire engulfed council offices in Oxfordshire during a spate of suspected arson attacks involving gas canisters that badly damaged two other buildings.
A man has been arrested over the three blazes at the offices, a funeral parlour and a thatched cottage. A car ploughed into the front of the council building in Crowmarsh Gifford.
Gas canisters were found at all three fire sites as well as the home of the 47-year-old suspect in Roke. Nearby properties were evacuated.
Police said links between the three fires at the South Oxfordshire District Council building in Crowmarsh Gifford, the nearby funeral parlour and the cottage in Roke Marsh, were under investigation.
Supt Andy Boyd said: "We are searching another address at Roke at the moment, there are gas canisters in that premises.
"We have secured the service of the EOD [bomb disposal] just to make sure that that premises is safe and officers can conduct a search later this afternoon."
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