A shopkeeper forced to scrap £50,000 of stock after arsonists struck has vowed the will soon be back in business.
Derek Freshwater and his family have had to live on savings since yobs set fire to bins at the back of his shop, Especially for You, in The Willows, Wickford, causing smoke damage to his entire stock
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