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Hotel owner guilty of fire safety offences

£11,500 fine handed down The part-owner of a hotel in Paignton, Torquay, has been handed fines totalling £11,500 after admitting to four breaches of The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Fire protection officers visited the Summerhill Hotel, of which defendant Mr Peter Wilks was a business partner, after a…

Investigation into causes of blaze at major Dubai skyscraper

Fire ripped through Address Downtown Hotel Investigators are continuing their exploration into the causes of a fire which ripped through the Address Downtown Hotel in Dubai on New Year’s Eve. Firefighters tackled the blaze, which had engulfed the exterior of the building, for over 20 hours before eventually bringing it…

Hotelier handed £200k fine for flouting fire safety laws

London Fire Brigade (LFB) has secured its biggest ever fine against a private individual after successfully prosecuting a hotelier who put lives at risk by flouting fire safety laws. Salim Patel, the former owner of The Radnor Hotel in Bayswater, was fined £200,000 and ordered to pay £29,922 court costs…
Firefighters tackle blaze at Blackpool hotel

Firefighters tackle blaze at Blackpool hotel

  Fire safety officers in Blackpool have started an investigation into a blaze that destroyed a hotel in the seaside town January 20th. A dog belonging to the owners is thought to have died in the fire, which tore through the five-storey Astoria Hotel just after 18:00 Sunday, but nobody…

Guernsey hotel fire treated as suspicious

A fire at a derelict hotel in Guernsey is being treated as suspicious by firefighters. The BBC reports that firefighters needed six hours to control the blaze, which had taken hold of the empty Idlerocks Hotel. Approximately 20 firefighters were needed to fight the conflagration, which Guernsey Fire and Rescue…

Fire minister announces ruling on hotel bedroom door case

Fire minister Bob Neil has called on the responsible person of a hotel to carry out a new fire risk assessment in order to resolve a dispute over how to improve fire safety standards. The enforcing authority and responsible person at an unnamed hotel were at odds of whether to…

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