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The joint owner of a Chinese takeaway has paid more than £11,000 after breaching fire safety legislation.

Onn Yan Lai, joint proprietor of the Kings Chinese takeaway in Thatcham, pleaded guilty to 12 offences under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 at Reading Magistrates Court on 1 February.

Royal Berkshire Fire Authority (RBFA) brought the charges following an inspection of the restaurant by fire safety officers in July 2010. At the time of the inspection, the premises was used as a ...

Kellogg’s manufacturing plant was hit by two unrelated fire incidents within days last week, it has been revealed.

The first fire, on Saturday 11February, affected the Bran Flakes production line at the factory in Wrexham, North Wales.

The fire started on the roof in of the facility, and was thought to have been caused by a blockage in a cyclone dust collection system, causing a motor to overheat.

Three appliances attended the scene where staff were evacuated, but the damage was minimal – ...

The shocking scenes that unfolded in a Honduras prison on Tuesday night will be difficult for relatives to come to terms with long after the cause of the fire is firmly established.

In the worst prison fire for over a century over 350 people are known to have burned and suffocated to death, locked in their cells while firemen struggled to find the guards who held the keys.

The conflicting goals of keeping prisoners securely locked up and that of fire safety ...

Two elderly women have been taken to hospital after a fire at a care home in Coventry.

Emergency services were called to the home in Duggins Lane, Tile Hill, during Saturday afternoon.

A West Midlands Ambulance spokesman said 38 residents had been moved out of the property, with six needing treatment, one for burns on her leg.

The remaining five people, including a member of staff, were treated for the effects of breathing in smoke.

Both women were in their 80s.

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A businessman and former Lord Mayor of Nottingham has been sentenced to 26 weeks imprisonment suspended for two years following breaches of fire safety law at his factory, which manufactured quilts.

Mohammed Munir was sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday (4 January) after earlier pleading guilty at the city’s magistrates court to six offences under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, including failing to carry out a suitable and sufficient risk assessment and failing to comply with an enforcement ...

Three young children and a teenager have been killed in a fire at a home in a Lancashire village.

Twin girls aged four, a two-year-old boy and a 19-year-old man all lost their lives, police said.

999 crews were called to a bungalow in Lytham Road, Freckleton, near Preston, at 11.21pm on Saturday.

Group manager Phil Cox, from Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service, who was the officer in charge, described the desperate battle to save the four people.

He said firefighters lead a fifth ...

Around 50 firefighters remained at the scene of a huge fire which has burned on a Lancashire business park for more than 16 hours.

Staff arriving at a Lancashire business park in the aftermath of a huge fire which engulfed a warehouse have described the site as “like a warzone.”

Around 50 firefighters are continuing to battle a blaze at the Lancashire Enterprise Business Park, off Centurion Way, in Leyland, after the blaze broke out at 5.20pm on Wednesday.

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Six people have been killed after a fire broke out in an old people’s home in the southern French city of Marseille.
All six died of smoke inhalation after the fire raged through the third floor of the building, police said.

Firefighters treated 15 people for smoke inhalation – three of them are in a serious condition.

A total of 180 people were in the nursing home when the fire broke out but not all of them were evacuated.

The fire comes less ...

In a bid to cut the incidence and severity of fires on timber-frame constructions sites, a new notification system comes into force this week.

Developed by the Chief Fire Officers Association and the UK Timber Frame Association, the national notification scheme is designed to support the UKTFA’s Site Safe scheme.

“If a fire and rescue service is notified of a construction site of this nature, it can be registered as a ‘temporary risk’ in their area, which could otherwise have gone undetected ...