A PARK bench in a children's playground was set on fire yesterday.
North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue said that they were called out at 7.48pm.
A crew from the Pickering station went to the scene at the children's playground off Hawthorn Street in Pickering.
They put the fire out using a bucket of water.
They added that the fire had been started deliberately.
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