ARSONISTS are believed to be responsible for setting a car on fire in Lidget Green in the early hours of this morning.

Fairweather Green firefighters were called to Dixon Avenue at about 1am today when a black Audi was on fire outside the owner's house.

No-one was injured in the incident.

Andy Collis, watch commander at Fairweather Green Fire Station, said: "It took 30 minutes for us to put out the fire.

"It is being treated as suspicious."