Hotel and porter fined after fire causes fatalities
A LONDON-based company has been fined £500,000 for fire safety failings that led to the deaths of two guests at the Cameron House Hotel in 2017.
A LONDON-based company has been fined £500,000 for fire safety failings that led to the deaths of two guests at the Cameron House Hotel in 2017.
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THE DIRECTOR of a construction company has been sentenced after a sub-contractor suffered serious injuries when a stack of plasterboards fell on him at a construction site in Thames Ditton, Surrey.
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