POLICE believe a fire at a pub that forced the evacuation of nearby homes and a petrol station was started deliberately.Flames engulfed a wooden summer house in the gardens of former pub The Beehive in Baddow Road, Great Baddow shortly before 11pm on Friday.Zowie Hart, who lives on Baddow Road, was woken by the blaze just four minutes after fire crews from Great Baddow and Chelmsford arrived.The mother-of-one said: "We were upstairs in bed and thought it was bright outside, like the street...
