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UPDATE: Architect speaks of blaze heartbreak
The owner of the Eel Pie Island house gutted by a blaze today spoke of his heartbreak after losing the family home he spent 25 years building. Clive Chapman, 55, an architect for the Riverside project, was sailing with his family in Cornwall
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Blaze hits Eel Pie Island
Residents were forced to flee their homes as a huge fire raged on Eel Pie Island. An explosion was heard from the island in the River Thames, near Twickenham, and eyewitnesses reported seeing a fireball, after the blaze broke out at about 9.30pm
