The Grand Pier in the Somerset seaside resort of Weston-super-Mare has been engulfed by fire.
The quarter-of-a-mile-long pier, which attracts thousands of visitors a year, reopened in April after a revamp.
It was owned by the Brenner family for three generations and had only changed hands three times since it opened in 1904.
In February this year, it was sold for an undisclosed sum to AGM Holdings, the holding company controlled by brother and sister Michelle and Kerry Michael.
Thirty firefighters are tackling the blaze which is thought to have broken out at the foot of the West Tower.
The BBC reports that the pier has collapsed on itself, adding that “nothing is going to be saved.”
