The Hanbury Hotel, Griffithstown.
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a suspected deliberate fire at the Hanbury Hotel in Griffithstown, Pontypool, in the early hours of this morning.
The former pub has been left vacant for more than a decade.
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A report of the fire in the empty and board-up building in Windsor Road, was received by South Wales Fire and Rescue Service at shortly after midnight.
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"Crews from New Inn attended the scene and extinguished the fire. The incident is suspected to have been deliberate," said a South Wales Fire and Rescue Service spokeswoman.
"The incident concluded at approximately 1.19am."
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