A fire at London’s five star Mandarin Oriental hotel saw dozens of guests and staff evacuated as 120 firefighters were dispatched to the Hyde Park area to control the blaze.

A landlord found to be in serious breach of management regulations has been ordered to pay nearly £3,000.

A huge fire which broke out at a recycling plant for the second time in two month was “an accident waiting to happen”, according to a councillor. The Daily Post reports that David Wisinger, Flintshire county councillor for Sandycroft and Queensferry, said that had the wind been blowing in a different direction, it could have been a “potential nightmare”.

A Birmingham landlord has been landed a huge £25k fine by Birmingham City Council following a host of fire safety offences being discovered at a property under his ownership. Anthony Freeman pleaded guilty to failure to obtain a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) Licence and numerous breaches of the HMO Management Regulations.

A Crown Court was told that a huge explosion which injured eight staff at a Surrey industrial site, five seriously, including one who was placed in an induced coma and was hospitalised for almost four months, occurred because of a failure to carry out fire risk assessments. The blast was at the Lingfield premises of Ereco EMEA Corporation, where the company recycled printer toner cartridges.