A HUGE farm fire raged all night and all day in West Hagbourne, near Didcot.

Fire crews were called to York Farm shortly after 8pm yesterday, where four hundred tonnes of straw and 200 tyres had caught fire.

This afternoon, firemen were still trying to put out the flames. Eyewitness Malcolm Brownswood said: “We could see the flames of the burning straw and wood about 200 yards away from the end of York Road. The straw pile was nearly 20 foot high and the flames much higher.”

Owner Jane Drewe, of Coscote Farm, near Didcot, said about 650 bales of wheat straw – worth about £6,000 – had been destroyed.

Photography student Harry Lawlor, 16, took this picture of the inferno. He said: “It was a pretty impressive site. I just started trying to get as close as I could, within reason, and took a few shots.”