A TEENAGER has appeared in court and admitted setting fire to seven specially adapted minibuses at Silk Mills Park and Ride, Taunton, on Saturday, April 26.

The 17-year-old from Taunton was arrested on Sunday, April 27, and subsequently charged with:

• Two counts of arson, both at Silk Mills Park and Ride, namely to an Audi A1 on Friday April 25, and seven Somerset Council minibuses on Saturday, April 26

• Affray on Sunday, April 27

• Criminal damage to two cars on Sunday, April 27

• Assault by beating an emergency worker on Sunday, April 27

He appeared at North Somerset Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, April 29, and entered guilty pleas to all six offences.

Magistrates remanded him into youth detention pending a sentencing hearing at Taunton Magistrates' Court on Thursday, May 29.