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NATIONAL HIGH STREET FIRM FINED FOR SERIOUS BREACHES OF FIRE SAFETY (LFB) 25 NOV 2009

"The high street retailer New Look has been fined £400,000 and ordered to pay £136,052 in costs after pleading guilty to serious breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (the “RRO”). It is the largest fine under the RRO."

"London Fire Brigade prosecuted New Look following a serious fire at their Oxford Street store on 26 April 2007."

"Following the fire, the Brigade carried out several fire safety inspections at the premises and found a substantial number of breaches of fire legislation. The most serious of these was an inadequate fire risk assessment which was found to have number failures, including no record of appropriate fire procedures including the correct one to adopt when the fire alarm activated."

"Sentencing of New Look took place at Southwark Crown Court on 25 November 2009 after they pleaded guilty to two breaches of the RRO."

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