Nightclub fined for fire breaches
Press release: PR074/07
Date: 19 November 2007
An Essex company have been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling almost £41,000 after pleading guilty to breaches of fire safety regulations at a well-known Ilford nightclub.
Nightway Ltd who run the Penthouse and Room at the Top nightclub in High Road, Ilford were fined for 12 breaches, including fire doors wedged open, no clear escape route and an exit staircase obstructed by rubbish.
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East London businesses fined for fire safety breaches
Press release: PR035/07
Date: 13 July 2007
Two East London businesses have been ordered to pay fines and costs totalling almost £43,000 after pleading guilty to breaches of fire safety regulations.
The Kolapata restaurant in Whitechapel Road was fined the maximum £5,000 for each of four contraventions, including no fire alarm, no smoke alarm and non fire-resistant doors and windows. Costs of over 7,000 were also awarded against the Defendant. The court heard that the restaurant continued to trade whilst no effort had been made to comply with earlier enforcement notices. Magistrates considered the contraventions to be very serious and that by ignoring the notices they had put both their employees and customers at risk.
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Successful prosecution following fire investigation
Press release: PR013/07
Date: 26 February 2007
An investigation by officers at the London Fire Brigade has resulted in the successful prosecution of the owners of a nursing home in Barnet following a fire in May 2005.
Park Care Homes Limited, who owned and operated Ravenscroft Park Nursing Home in Barnet were fined £200,000 at Harrow Crown Court on Friday 16 February for contraventions of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999. (more…)