Hotel beautician engulfed in fireball

A Lancashire hotel has admitted health and safety failings after a beautician suffered serious burns when she was engulfed in flames. Blackpool Magistrates’ Court heard Julie McKeown was working at The Dalmeny Hotel in Lytham St. Annes when the incident took place on...

Restaurant fire safety

Thai Manor boss spared jail after troubling fire safety breaches. A former restaurant boss who put customers’ lives at risk has been spared jail, but ordered to pay costs totalling more than £5,000 according to sunderlandecho. A judge said the fire safety breaches by...

Hotel pays £50,000 for fire safety offences

A hotel company has had to pay £50,000 in fines and costs after breaching fire safety legislation. Chescombe Ltd – owner of Tantons Hotel in Bideford – was fined £40,000 and ordered to pay £10,000 in costs at Exeter Crown Court on 20 September. The company had...

Seven homeless after care home blaze

Firefighters were called to a care home on the Essex coast on Thursday August 23rd when a blaze broke out in the building, leaving seven people homeless. The incident occurred at The Firs on Thorpe Road in Frinton-on-Sea at around 5.50pm. It was caused when a drink...

Care home fined for fire safety breaches

The owners of a care home in Kendray, Barnsley, have had to pay more than £11,000 in fines and costs for breaching fire safety legislation. Park Care Ltd, the owners of Park Grange nursing home, pleaded guilty to three breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety)...