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Recent News
20th July 2013, Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service
Defendant - Askar Miah, Southampton based landlord. Pleaded guilty to multiple fire safety failures, including failure to provide means of detection and giving warning in the event of a fire, failure to keep escape routes [...]
11th July 2013, Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service
Defendant - Derek Sweeney, director of the Travellers Rest at Grassmere in Cumbria. 6 fire safety failures, including failure to conduct a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment, failure to provide means of detection and [...]
28th May 2013, Cleveland Fire Service
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 [...]
17th May 2013, North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service
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. [...]
8th May 2013, Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service
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 [...]
1st May 2013, London Fire Brigade
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 [...]