Southend Pier, the longest pier in the world, suffered a devastating fire that damaged large sections of the structure causing chunks to fall into the sea. Key attractions and facilities like the railway station, gift shop, restaurants, and amusement arcade were destroyed. The fire also impacted the railway that transports pier trains as the last section collapsed into the sea. In a separate incident, vandals threw the men's toilet into the sea, leaving males without facilities until a new, reinforced steel toilet sprayed with anti-vandal coating was rebuilt.

1. SOUTHEND PIER
This is Southend pier, the longest pier in the world, and a pier which has had
to endure infernos throughout its whole life, by which the most recent was by
far the worst. The fire damaged the pier so badly that huge chunks fell into the
sea.
In the onslaught the Southend Pier railway station disappeared as did the gift
shop, a number of restaurants and the amusement arcade. Even the railway that
carries the pier trains was affected for the last section fell into the sea when
it was destroyed by fire.
There was one incident on the pier that occurred a little while ago.
A gang of yobs grabbed hold of the gents toilet and chucked it into the sea,�
leaving men and boys without a toilet, so they had to dive into the sea and find
the toilet. If it sank to the bottom of the sea they would then have make their
own toilets. They would get hold of a load of sand and make a sand toilet, but
they would have to be as quickly as possible before children could collapse the
sand toilet, exposing the man.
The top policeman, PC World was contacted and he and his men and women tracked
down the yobs and put them into a yob cage in the nearby human zoo in Duckpond
Road, Southend.
A new toilet was eventually built on Southend Pier, made of extra strong steel
and sprayed with yob repellent.