A family has virtually nothing left after a fire wrecked their home and killed their pet dog. The family of six fled the council property on Lander Road, Saltash, in the early hours of Saturday morning. Susan Beaver, her partner Chris Liney and her four children – 13-year-old twins Danni and Amy Beaver, Kelsey Chapple, seven, and Finley Liney, two – were alerted to the fire when their six-month-old puppy, Tiny, started barking.

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