ARSONISTS started four fires over the weekend.

A crew from Springbourne were called to a bin fire on Meyrick Road at 10.59pm on Saturday and extinguished the blaze.

Then crews from Springbourne and Westbourne were called to a bin on fire at 4.32am on Boscombe Spa Road on Sunday.

The firefighters extinguished the bin using hose reel jets.

Then a crew from Springbourne was called to a bin on fire on Wharncliffe Road at 4.40am on Sunday.

A crew from Christchurch Fire station was then called to another bin fire on Castle Lane East at 5.08am on the same morning.

A Dorset Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said they arrived on the scene to find the bin “well alight”.