Following a complaint from a tenant, a private landlord and an agent have been fined more than £21000 for managing an unlicensed HMO lacking fire safety.

A managing agent in east London has been fined more than £46,000 and ordered to pay £7000 in costs following convictions for five offences under the Housing Act 2004 including breaching fire and safety conditions.

A landlord who failed to fit smoke alarms inside a rented house where a fire killed two young boys has been jailed for a year following a landmark case.

Forty-eight safety improvements will have been carried out at Royal Stoke University Hospital by the end of the year following an arson attack at the site, reports the Stoke Sentinel.

A landlord who housed a family of seven when the local authority said the maximum capacity was four people has been found guilty of a long list of offences.