Fire at former South Weymouth Naval Air Station deemed arson, reward offered

WEYMOUTH — Investigators have determined that someone intentionally started a massive fire in a set of abandoned military buildings at the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station. The two-alarm fire started on Thursday and tore through the buildings at 223 Shea Memorial Drive at Union Point. The roof of one of the buildings collapsed, according to reports from the scene, forcing Shea Memorial Drive at Route 18 to be closed, as well as Memorial Grove Avenue at the Union Point Sports

Toilet roll reward offered for return of schoolboy’s cockatiel

A family whose pet cockatiel has flown the coop are offering a much-sought-after reward to the person who helps find him – a pack of toilet rolls. Oreo, who is seven months old and often sings ‘If you’re happy and you know it’, escaped through the back door of his owners’ home in Norfolk on Friday, March 27th. Karen Hume, who bought the pet for her 12-year-old son Michael last year, said the bird usually stuck to flying around the lounge but had decided to follow her into the kitchen.