Poundstretcher suffered another blow only weeks after being prosecuted for fire safety breaches under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Their store at Boucher Retail Park, Belfast was destroyed by fire and two other stores on the site were also badly damaged as the fire spread to the two adjacent shop outlets. The fire [...]
September’s customer survey winner was Mr P from Southampton. For a chance to win £25 ‘Love2Shop’ vouchers, all you need to do is complete the customer survey questionnaire after purchasing from our website. The lucky participant wins the vouchers. ‘Love2Shop’ is a highstreet gift voucher that is accepted by over 80 leading retailers, including are [...]
Fire crews were called to a house fire on Thursday at 11.58pm in Bridlington, East Yorkshire. Three children died in the fire and a woman of 27 years old was rescued but is in a critical condition in hospital in Scarborough. It is too early to determine how the fire started but it is thought [...]
Poundstretcher, a national store chain, have been found guilty of fire safety breaches under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. These breaches will cost the chain store £55,000. This is already their second prosecution. Poundstretcher were found guilty of similar breaches in 2009 and were fined £20,500 for these breaches relating to their Halifax [...]
The newly designed Sashment Emergency Fire Escape Window has been added to our range of 1500 fire safety products. This window is of a timber construction and not only offers you all the functions of a traditional sash window does but also has the capability to open up fully to reveal the entire window aperture. [...]
In September Mablethorpe celebrated its annual Beach Festival. The festival holds the title of longest linear coastal art festival in Europe. A record number of visitors turned out to enjoy the music and crafts provided at the festival, with 25,000 attending. The cultural mix on offer ranged from a theatre on wheels, Shakespeare, local bands [...]
We are always looking at ways of improving our systems and through our customer surveys ask our customers to tell us what they would like us to do for them. One suggestion that was made by some of our customers was to have a log in system to enable them to place repeat orders without [...]
Liberal Democrat MP, Adrian Sanders, has introduced a private members bill to ensure that landlords are responsible for having a working smoke alarm system for the premises they let. This bill will now have its second hearing. The bill outlines the responsibility of landlords to ensure that on the onset of a new tenancy there [...]
It’s that time of year where it’s perfectly acceptable to bathe in a bathtub full of beans, watch your teacher get their legs waxed or see your favourite celebrity doing something dangerous on ice. BBC Children in Need reaches a climax on Friday, 19th November after a month of fundraising and campaigns around the UK. [...]
Any CO detector installed is a potentially life saving piece of equipment, and for this reason must be carefully chosen. CO detectors with certification in accordance to the European Norm EN50291 are tested to a higher standard of sensitivity and reaction time, than those tested to the US American UL2034 standard. CO detectors that meet [...]
