Penhallow Hotel owners fined £80k for safety breaches
BBC News report:
"Three people from Staffordshire died as a result of the fire at the Penhallow Hotel in Newquay in August 2007. O&C Holdsworth Ltd admitted failing to have safety procedures and equpiment in place. It was fined £80,000 and ordered to pay £62,000 costs. The fire service said it reflected the 'seriousness of this case'."
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Follow up story:
"The owners of a Cornish hotel destroyed by fire have been fined £80,000 and ordered to pay £62,000 costs for failing to meet fire safety standards.
"Three Staffordshire people died in the blaze at the Penhallow Hotel in Newquay in August 2007.
"In March O&C Holdsworth Ltd admitted failing to provide proper fire detection and alarm systems and failing to make a proper risk assessment.
"The company, from Halifax, Yorkshire, was sentenced at Truro Crown Court.
"Holidaymakers Joan Harper, 80, Monica Hughes, 86, and her son Peter, 43, died in the blaze, described by firefighters as the worst hotel fire in Britain for 40 years."
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