After two days' hard graft at Fire and Rescue 2010, I was looking forward to a good night's sleep in my Harrogate hotel room...writes James Blue of organiser UBM Live.

BMW have issued a mssive recall of 235,000 Mini's following the discovery of a fire risk in the water pump of certain models

Actor and comedian Rowan Atkinson is being treated in hospital for ‘minor injuries’ after a crash in his Mclaren F1 supercar, which then caught fire.

A lorry carrying 24 tonnes of cheese caught fire last week, leading to the closure of a motorway in Somerset.

A million pounds a month is being wasted on maintaining nine empty regional control centres because of the “almost unmitigated disaster” of the Fire Control project.

Residents have been left fuming after being handed an ‘astronomical’ bill for fire safety measures, of which just the admin costs run into more than £56,000 - two days before Christmas.

After two days' hard graft at Fire and Rescue 2010, I was looking forward to a good night's sleep in my Harrogate hotel room...writes James Blue of organiser UBM Live.

BB7 Fire Safety Engineering, based in Chatham, Kent, is the first company to gain approval under the fire risk assessment quality assurance scheme (FRACS) run by Warrington Certification.

Find out where and when Firex South will be taking place.

An external fire risk assessor and a hotel manager have both been jailed for eight months for fire safety offences.

The need for a single resister of professional fire risk assessors working to a unified set of competency standards was high on the agenda at the first morning’s seminar sessions at Firex North.

The long awaited competency criteria for fire risk assessors have been published as a draft document for public comment.

Residents have been left fuming after being handed an ‘astronomical’ bill for fire safety measures, of which just the admin costs run into more than £56,000 - two days before Christmas.

The Fire Industry Association has branded the decision of some English fire and rescue services not to respond to certain automatic fire alarms as ‘madness’.