21.   Most burglars prefer to go to an empty house and elderly people tend to be at home all day.

22.   The empty houses are expected to be re-occupied.

23.   THE number of empty council houses in Middlesbrough is being kept to the bare minimum in a bid to ease a housing crisis.

24.   A fire in an empty house in Queen Street, South Bank, Middlesbrough, was started deliberately, said firemen.

25.   Fire crews tackled the second blaze in three days in an empty house in Trent Street, Middlesbrough yesterday.

26.   Fire crews spent more than two hours tackling a severe blaze in an empty Middlesbrough house yesterday.

27.   An empty house in Coxon Hill, Grove Hill, Middlesbrough, was badly damaged by fire last night.

28.   In fact they have discretionary powers on all empty houses.

29.   An elderly couple who owned a small empty house rented it to the Manchester Guardian to lodge a crew of three.

30.   An empty house on the property in front of the one he built will be his office, he said.