Detectives are appealing for witnesses and video footage after Asmall School was left significantly damaged following a fire last night.

Officers attended the Tennyson Drive school at 7.47pm yesterday; a significant amount of the building has been damaged and work was ongoing today to ensure it is safe.

Detectives are now working alongside Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service to establish the cause of the fire which is currently being treated as arson; pictured this morning is the fingertip investigation to the nursery at the rear of the premises with officers making door to door enquiries locally.

No arrests have been made at this stage with detectives asking people to check their CCTV or dashcam footage to see if they have captured anyone acting suspiciously in the area before or after the fire took place.

DS Elizabeth Martin, of South CID, said: “This fire has had devastating impact on the school and the local community as a whole and we are working to establish the exact cause of it.

“We have already made a number of enquiries and we are now asking the public to come forward if they witnessed anything or have any mobile phone, CCTV or dashcam footage which could assist our investigation.

"We are particularly keen to obtain footage from before and after the time smoke started to appear from the building.

"We would also like footage which shows anybody acting suspiciously in the area in the lead up or after the fire was started.”

Anybody with information is asked to email 8730@lancashire.police.uk or call 101, quoting log 1424 of June 17, 2021.

Meanwhile, a GoFundMe campaign for the school's already raised almost £7,000 in less than 24 hours.