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Due to a faulty heating system, Monica Thomas from Oxford,a mother-of-four says she and her family have been without heating for a year. Monica who is 25 years old and lives in Salesian Gardens in Cowley with her four children aged 8, 5, 4 and 2, in a three-storey home. According to Ms Thomas their heating and hot water system has not been Read more...

Firefighters were called to a house on Monday, January 20 to extinguish a blaze in the Tunbridge Wells area, after an electrical fault set one of the bedrooms upstairs on fire. Fire crews were called shortly before 12:30pm to the Erskine Park Road where the electrical fault was reported to have caused a fire to break out and set a wardrobe full of Read more...

Detectives investigating an armed robbery in Buxton, have released the CCTV footage of theincident, which seen a family being held captive in their own home. Since the robbery aired on BBC’s Crimewatch programmeon Wednesday, informing the public of the thousands of pounds worth of jewellery and precious metals stole, officers have now started Read more...

The lack of lighting in remote parts of the world has a knock-on effect on security and safety concerns, especially in cities or along major roadways. Hidalgo, Texas is a rural county with little infrastructure located on the US/Mexican border and is made up of low income communities called colonias and currently experiences high crime rates. Read more...

Battalion Chief, Jim Hopkins issued a release on Saturday regarding Friday’s house fire on Cornell Avenue, Berkeley Heights. The fire department was notified about the reported house fire at 2.31pm, and on arrival Deputy Chief Padovano discovered that the fire had started in the kitchen and was quickly growing and was soon to spread to other Read more...

With the adoption of an apparently much safer standard for sockets and pugs, South Africans could soon find themselves having to cope with a new type of electrical plug. Gianfranco Campetti, SABS (South African Bureau of Standards) Committee chairman says, “In 2013, SANS 164-2 was introduced as the ‘preferred standard’ for electrical plugs Read more...

According to Dutch researchers our ballooning waistlines could be caused from having the central heating switched on. They believe that the higher temperatures in homes, offices and hospitals means that we are provided with more comfort, meaning that our bodies no longer need to burn any extra calories in order to help stay warm. A Maastricht Read more...

Mr. John Jinapor, the Deputy Minister of Energy, has recently announced the government’s plans to embark on a massive street lighting project across the country. He said the illumination system of all major towns and cities will be improved significantly so that security would be strengthened and night life activities will be promoted. This Read more...

Shelburne’s largest park ‘Greenwood’ is currently undergoing renovations which will see the park receive new and convenient wireless controls for the lighting system, while the Kinette Club of Shelburne is working on erecting a pavilion in the park. The council approved to help the Kinette Club investigate the first necessary steps of Read more...

Fire-fighters with the Tupelo Fire Department spent time  on Wednesday attending a course on electrical hazards. It was decided that fire-fighters should attend this course as all to often they enter structures on fire, which have electrical hazards due to being interconnected to electrical systems. Bill Wardlaw, batallion chief Tupelo Fire Read more...