AROUND 300 square metres of grass and bracken was deliberately set on fire at the old Tredegar Park golf course in Rogerstone near Newport last night.
Firefighters from Malpas and Maindee attended at 7.22pm and the fire was extinguished.
The incident has been passed on to Gwent Police.
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