Brighton Pier, E Sussex - (Blazing Mess): Last week's arson attack on Camden Lock's myriad crack-dealing mini-empires has suddenly spread to the Ten Grand Hotel in Brighton.
The seaside sleaze-pit has always attracted seedy dregs like the Tory Party Conference and their alter-egos the IRA bombers who successfully set the place alight on October 12, 1984 in a post-1983 Brinks Matt bullion heist turf dispute.
Today some 400 guests had to be evacuated from the shag--palace after a blaze erupted on the sixth floor.
Twenty fire engines fought the flames which raged unabated until the early hours of the morning.
200 firefighters struggled to control the blaze which lit up the Esplanade skyline much like the Chalk Farm Road in North London last weekend.
So far there has been no news of Mayor Ken Livingstone milking publicity with an offer of £££s handouts to the stricken guests.
"Probably because he's already given away all the dosh to those dispossessed crack-den squatters," Mrs Jenny Muskrat told the local TV news.
"People down here don't like him anyway," Muskrat added, "looks too much like a Tory plant than the old Red Ken we knew back in the 1980s."
Amy Winehouse is paralytic again.
