Defendant - Nicholas Hyde, the owner of multiple flats. 5 fire safety failures, including a lack of a working fire alarm system, exposed electrical wires, damaged and scorched sockets and switches, a serious fire risk from large quantities of rubbish inside and outside the building, and a lack of heating - causing residents to use cookers and portable heaters to keep warm. Fined £18,000 plus £3,082 in costs.

Defendant - Alan Foster, the owner of multiple flats. Failure to keep the stairwell clear of combustible materials and waste, failure to maintain fire doors, failure to conduct a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment. Jailed for 12 months.

Defendant - Mr Mohammed Attique, the owner of a takeaway restaurant in Blackpool 9 fire safety failures, including, but not limited to, failure to conduct a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment, failure to provide adequate means of detection and giving warning in the event of a fire, failure to provide adequate means of fighting a fire, failure to provide suitable means of escape from the premises, and blocked escape routes. Fined a total of £9,000 plus £2,607 in court costs.

Defendants - Winsmill Limited, and director Ron Kemeny Failure to equip the building with appropriate fire detectors, no fire doors on the ground floor, no self-closing doors leading onto the building's escape routes, and failure to provide a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment. Winsmill Limited - Fined £30,000; Ron Kemeny - 4 month suspended jail sentence (suspended for 12 months)

Defendant - D. M. Care, the owner of the Ambassador Care Home in Blackpool 7 fire safety failures, including a failure to provide a suitable means of giving warning in the event of a fire, and failure to keep the escape route clear of combustible materials and ignition source. Fined £35,000 plus £5,375 in costs

Defendant - Anthony O'Leary, leaseholder of the former Tavern Inn the Town on Castle Road Failure to provide a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment, failure to provide any means of giving warning in the event of a fire, inadequate means of escape from the building, breaching a prohibition notice, and failure to provide emergency lighting. Sentenced to 9 months imprisonment for breaching the prohibition notice, and 6 months for each other offence. All sentences were suspended for 2 years and will run concurrently.

Defendant - Jack Wills (Fashion Retailer) Failure to maintain fire doors, failing to keep the under-stair electrical switch gear room clear of combustible materials, failure to keep the protected stairwell clear of combustible materials, failure to provide the secondary escape route with adequate signage, failure to comply with an enforcement notice. Fined £27,000 plus £5,619 in costs.

Defendant - Tahir Ahmed, leaseholder of a building being used as both a commercial shop and a house of multiple occupation Failure to carry out a fire risk assessment; failure to maintain the fire alarm provided in the premises; failure to maintain the emergency lighting; failure to provide the relevant fire doors in the premises; failure to ensure the means of escape were clear. Fined £12,000 plus £6,278.50 in costs

Defendant - Martin McColls Ltd. Failure to review the fire risk assessment; failure to ensure that the outstanding issues identified by the fire risk assessment were put into place; securing the fire exit door with a padlock; failure to maintain fire safety equipment; failure to ensure that the manager of the premises had been adequately trained. Fined £17,000 plus £3,817.51 in costs

Defendants - Brian Silvester (Willaston ward councillor), Colin Silvester Multiple charges, including failure to provide a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment; failure to provide an adequate means of giving warning in the event of a fire; failure to provide adequate means of escape from the premises. Brian Silvester fined £45,000 plus £22,000 in costs Colin Silvester fined £37,000 plus £22,000 in costs