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A landlord and two businesses have been fined over £145,000 following a fire in a building containing residential flats and a...

Landlord Gordon Lee has been sentenced to 12-months' community service and must pay the full costs of his fire safety court...

A fire and rescue service is asking landlords who own or manage HMOs to get involved in a pilot scheme. Over the...

A landlord in the north of England has been given a suspended prison sentence and a huge fine for fire safety...

A landlord has been ordered to pay thousands of pounds by magistrates after a bedroom fire revealed tenants were living in...

A landlord has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment suspended for two years for breaches of fire safety legislation. Thirunavukkaradu Kuladaisamy, the...

Smoke and carbon monoxide alarms - a critical issue for landlords in light of recent legislation - are back in the...

Three years after the Grenfell fire, 257 tower blocks in Britain, housing about 56,000 people, are still to be made safe,...

As you will undoubtedly know, it is a legal requirement to ensure your rental property has adequate smoke detectors installed.  Some landlords...

A new fire safety campaign urging private sector landlords and letting agents to always abide by the law and install smoke...

A landlord has been ordered to pay just over £5,000 after admitting safety failings at a fire-hit house in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. Lawrence...

A tenant who set fire to her flat because her landlord was planning to evict her has been sentenced to three...

The owner of a rental property in west London, which was described by a judge as a “deathtrap”, has been told...

A Coventry-based landlord has avoided a prison sentence over fire safety offences after his tenant suffered life-threatening burns to 40% of...

A Birmingham landlord has been sent to prison for 19 months and ordered to pay £13,820 costs over a catalogue of...

A firefighter has been jailed after inadequate fire safety measures contributed to the deaths of five people at a rented property...

A London landlord has been fined £160,000 and ordered to pay £40,000 prosecution costs for breaking fire safety laws following a...