Anthony and Angela McIntyre spent £8,400 having the 20 panels installed on their roof three years ago. But a faulty circuit in the loft triggered a fire which gutted most of the four-bedroom

detached house. The blaze started as the couple’s younger daughter Chloe, 15, was lying in bed asleep. Anthony dashed to wake her and get her out. The family then watched from their garden

as the flames took hold and left the house in Thornbury, Glos, a smouldering wreck. The couple and daughters Chloe and Sophie, 19, are still in rented accommodation following the fire while

their home is being rebuilt at a cost of up to £200,000. Anthony, 51, a production technician at Oldbury nuclear power station, said: “My wife was around and our youngest daughter was still