Fire-hit hotel ignored guests' safety

A fire service investigation after trapped guests had to be rescued from an Arundel hotel has resulted in prosecution of the former owners. The former management company of The White Swan hotel, west of Arundel on the A27, has been fined £25,000 plus costs after pleading guilty to serious breaches of fire safety laws.

The prosecution follows a fire at the hotel in March 2007 when ten guests were trapped in their bedrooms and had to be rescued from first floor windows by firefighters us... (91 more words)

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