A prisoner set fire to her cell bedding at Christchurch Women's Prison last night, causing extensive damage and injuring two prison guards who came to help her.

A lesbian couple have been targeted by arson and had anti-gay slurs graffitied on their property.

A clean-up began yesterday at a primary school left in ruins after a fire swept through a third of its buildings on Friday.

A 3-year-old dog has been burned to death by an arsonist who doused its pen with petrol and set it alight.

Arsonist Phoebe O'Donaghue has no remorse and no empathy for the family whose house she torched as they slept, a Probation Service report says.

You might be surprised how often insurance companies call their customers liars, fraudsters or criminals, and the flimsy basis on which they sometimes do so.