Health & safety
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Police probing the cause of the fire at the Penhallow Hotel in Newquay last summer, where three people died, have arrested the hotel manager and his wife.
Posted: 16 May 2008 | 15:59
A hotel management company has been fined a total of more than £35,000 after serious breaches of security were discovered following a fire.
Posted: 09 May 2008 | 08:00
The Great Western Hotel in Newquay has been given the go ahead to reopen after a guest died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Posted: 01 May 2008 | 12:14
Pub chain Marston’s has been fined £10,000 after a chef was seriously injured in a kitchen accident.
Posted: 23 April 2008 | 15:58
A four-star Liverpool hotel is to install carbon monoxide detectors in rooms after two guests became ill, possibly due to carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty boiler.
Posted: 23 April 2008 | 15:27
Chinese restaurant owners in London have been warned to look out for a banned strain of Genetically Modified rice from China.
Posted: 22 April 2008 | 11:07
A tourist has died and five people have been taken to hospital after a suspected gas leak at the recently reopened Great Western Hotel in Cornwall, according to the BBC.
Posted: 21 April 2008 | 15:10
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Oliver outlines new openings; Newquay hotel evacuated; Scottish restaurant in name dispute with Wedgwood china; Two men arrested over fireball ‘prank’ in Derbyshire pub
Posted: 21 April 2008 | 12:00
Acclaimed London restaurant the River Café has been closed after it was damaged in a fire at the weekend.
Posted: 07 April 2008 | 15:55
McDonald's has been fined a total of almost £40,000 after a worker was badly injured following a fall.
Posted: 02 April 2008 | 15:00
A famous South-west hotel has been heavily fined after environmental health inspectors found kitchens in a filthy state.
Posted: 25 March 2008 | 14:31
Over a thousand hotels and beds & breakfasts have breached new fire safety rules since their introduction last October 2006, according to the Liberal Democrats.
Posted: 25 March 2008 | 14:12
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is to launch a 12-week consultation on the potential nationwide rollout of a "scores on the doors" scheme ranking restaurants on hygiene levels.
Posted: 14 March 2008 | 13:34
A South-west restaurant run by two celebrity chefs has been badly damaged in a fire.
Posted: 28 February 2008 | 13:23
“Slips, trips and falls” in the hospitality industry cost society £31m last year, according to newly released statistics from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Posted: 27 February 2008 | 12:15
Investigators are trying to find the source of a fire at the De Vere Grand hotel in Brighton, which led to the evacuation of the property over the weekend.
Posted: 18 February 2008 | 11:37
A round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Major fire at Brighton hotel once bombed by IRA; Von Essen in talks to buy Inverlochy Castle and hotel in Monaco; Clapham House considers sale of some restaurant brands
Posted: 18 February 2008 | 10:58
A terrorist attack is always a terrible thing and can have an awful human cost. But there is also the danger to businesses, both in terms of being the focus of an incident and in the commercial repercussions. Christopher Walton reports
Posted: 14 February 2008 | 00:00
Greene King has been fined £5,400 after a teenage employee in a pub in Leicestershire was scalded with hot oil.
Posted: 13 February 2008 | 13:30
The deaths of three people from a fire that destroyed a hotel in Newquay last August are now being treated as murder.
Posted: 22 January 2008 | 17:23
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