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30/03/2011 - Firm fined over Legionnaires' death - A holiday firm has been hit with a £120,000 fine for breaching health and safety regulations following the death of a man who visited a resort, prosecutors have said.
30/03/2011 - Landlord fined for safety breaches - Landlords who fail to take proper safety measures can face big fines - as happened recently in the case of a man from Portsmouth.
29/03/2011 - Building firm fined for roof fall - A construction firm has been fined £20,000 and ordered to pay £3,500 in costs after an employee shattered his wrist when he fell from a youth centre roof in Solihull.
29/03/2011 - Firm fined over forklift injury - A recycling firm in Nuneaton has been fined £4,000 after a worker was pinned down by a forklift truck and seriously injured.
28/03/2011 - Man in hospital with legionella bug - A man has been treated in hospital for Legionnaires' disease in the wake of becoming ill after using a four-star hotel's leisure centre.
28/03/2011 - Pubs squeezed by chain competition - The number of pubs, clubs, restaurants and bars surrendering their alcohol licences has soared by 13% in the last 12 months amid increasing competition from supermarkets and large pub chains, according to a study.
25/03/2011 - Tradesman fined over insurance - A man who ran a plastics recycling business with no compulsory insurance to protect workers has been fined £2,500.
25/03/2011 - 10p added to average pub pint price - The average pint of beer will cost you an extra 10p, thanks to the Government's tax increase on alcohol.
24/03/2011 - Second Spider-Man actress injured - The troubled Spider-Man show on Broadway has been hit by a double dose of bad luck after an actress brought in to replace an injured performer was herself ruled out for two weeks after an on-stage accident.
24/03/2011 - Theme park worker 'injured hand' - Parkware Ltd has been fined £5,000 after a theme park worker suffered serious injuries to his right hand as he was cutting wood using an unguarded rotating saw blade.
23/03/2011 - Firms fined over scaffolding injury - Two building firms have been fined after an elderly member of the public was injured by scaffolding.
23/03/2011 - Poor practice sees man lose toe - A farm's failure to provide a safe system of work left a young man with such serious injuries to his toes that one had to be amputated.
22/03/2011 - Arcadia fined for asbestos exposure - Arcadia, which runs the Topshop stores, has been prosecuted along with a shopfitting company for exposing workers to the cancer-causing mineral asbestos.
21/03/2011 - Firms fined after worker crushed - Two firms have been fined a total of £130,000 following an incident when a worker was crushed by a concrete beam and killed.
21/03/2011 - Young worker electrocuted at site - A lack of training led to a young worker being electrocuted when the lorry-driven crane he was using came into contact with overhead power cables at an industrial estate.
18/03/2011 - Firm fined over fork lift injuries - A pipework company has been fined £20,000 after a worker was injured by a fork lift truck.
18/03/2011 - Gas fitter fined over blast injury - A gas engineer has been fined £2,000 and ordered to pay £1,071 in costs after a father of two was blinded in one eye when his gas fire exploded in his North Yorkshire home.
17/03/2011 - Theft case against Peaches dropped - Police have dropped a dress theft case against TV presenter Peaches Geldof due to "insufficient evidence", according to her spokeswoman.
17/03/2011 - Report reveals UK pub closures - The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has called on the Government to abandon plans to increase beer tax in next week's Budget, after its report revealed that a total of 25 pubs close across the UK every week.
16/03/2011 - Firm fined over isocyanate exposure - An international utilities company has been fined £4,000 and ordered to pay £15,062 in costs after an agency worker was exposed to a hazardous chemical for a prolonged amount of time while repainting joints on a gas pipeline near Ivybridge, Devon.
16/03/2011 - Surveyor fined over asbestos fault - A recent case of asbestos management failure has highlighted the need for liability insurance.
15/03/2011 - Firms convicted after worker killed - Two companies have been convicted of breaching health and safety rules after a labourer was killed when he fell from scaffolding in Glasgow.
15/03/2011 - Firm fined for decorations collapse - The collapse of Christmas decorations spanning a High Street, injuring two people and just missing a baby, has resulted in a £12,000 fine for a building company.
14/03/2011 - Firm fined after worker loses arm - An industrial accident in which a worker lost part of his arm has resulted in a £60,000 fine for an international waste recycling firm.
14/03/2011 - Manager fined for asbestos exposure - The manager of a construction site has been handed a suspended prison sentence for exposing a bricklayer to dangerous asbestos fibres, which can lead to death.
11/03/2011 - Firm fined for asbestos exposure - A refurbishment firm has been fined thousands of pounds for exposing its workers and members of the public to asbestos.
11/03/2011 - Landlord to take pub chain to court - A landlord is suing his pub chain after suffering injuries he claims will see him spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.
10/03/2011 - Bus knocks worker off cherry picker - An investigation has been launched into how a double decker bus knocked a builder off a cherry picker in London and then ran over him.
10/03/2011 - Firm fined £25,000 after shaft fall - A construction firm has been fined £25,000 after a worker fell 6m down a lift shaft in Brighton.
09/03/2011 - Cheap booze blamed for pub closures - Cheap alcohol sold in supermarkets has been blamed for a recent spate of pub closures in the UK.
09/03/2011 - Company fined £20,000 over injuries - A company has been fined £20,000 after a worker was badly injured at Corby Steel Works, Northamptonshire.
08/03/2011 - Firm fined over worker burns injury - A Greater Manchester-based property maintenance company has been fined £5,000 after a member of staff burnt his face, neck and arm while carrying out a job.
08/03/2011 - Labourer badly injured in farm job - A farmer's failure to uphold his duty of care of workers under his watch resulted in a ruptured spleen and multiple broken bones for a labourer at his farm.
07/03/2011 - Vehicle firm fined £5,000 over fall - A Yeovil vehicle repair and sales firm has been fined £5,000 after a worker fractured his elbow by falling from a cage balanced on a fork lift truck.
07/03/2011 - Unsafe scaffold badly hurts worker - Dangerously assembled scaffolding left a worker with crushed bones in his back and a broken foot after he fell 4m to the ground.
04/03/2011 - Council fined over asbestos threat - A failure to manage the risk of asbestos has landed Nottingham City Council with a £30,000 fine.
04/03/2011 - Falling beam 'just missed workers' - A group of workers removing a crane runway from a warehouse in Newcastle narrowly avoided being hit by a steel girder weighing almost four tons, a court has heard.
03/03/2011 - Firm fined after roof worker's fall - A building maintenance firm has been fined and ordered to pay court costs after a steeplejack was seriously hurt in a 26ft fall from a church.
03/03/2011 - Haulier fined for unsafe practices - A haulage firm's failure to carry out a proper risk assessment of work has left it with an £8,000 fine to pay.
02/03/2011 - Plumbers targeted by HMRC amnesty - A plumbers amnesty has been launched by HM Revenue & Customs in a bid to encourage people to give up any unpaid income tax.
02/03/2011 - Chef cellist lops off finger tip - A MasterChef contestant who normally works as a professional cellist sliced off the top of his finger with a potato peeler while on the show, it has been revealed.
01/03/2011 - Coastguard 'gave wrong rescue spot' - An inquiry into the deaths of three men from Cumbria who drowned when their scallop dredger capsized has heard that the coastguard gave the RAF the wrong location for the rescue attempt.
01/03/2011 - Warning over farm worker safety - The father of a man who died after a slurry container burst on a farm said he hopes future accidents can be avoided as a result of his son's death.