A FIRE deliberately started by children was so far from a main road firefighters needed to use buckets and a backpack to douse the flames.

A group of old chicken sheds off Riverside Road, at the bottom of Wiggenhall Road, Watford, were set on fire around 4.50pm on Saturday and tthe blaze took Watford firefighters about an hour to deal with.

A spokesman said: "There are some ramshackle old sheds down there and some kids started mucking around, and started a fire there."