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Paperboy saves pensioner from carbon monoxide poisoning

Ignore the boiler in the picture not at all related to the incident.

It doesn't pay to be a loyal customer as companies may try to take advantage

This example being Good Ol BG "doing the right thing"

You know those useless low energy light bulbs you didn't want - NPower is sending out millions of them as a ploy to save fines

Thanks to Martin K for sending me this

Suspected gas explosion in Shrewsbury destroys flats

Thanks to Wim and Tim for alerting me to this.

Beware Greeks bearing gifts is the expression that sprang to mind when reading this

Is this the same man and boiler as in this unrelated news item posted last week? He gets around doesn't he?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... alert.html

Its that man again.

Do you think he gets royalty payments every time his picture is dragged out.

Gas Safe Registered "engineer" jailed for issuing fraudulent certificate

Would have amused some of us no doubt if it had been a Gas Safe Inspector but regretfully not.

Call for Borders people to be CO aware and install carbon monoxide alarms.

Sniffer still feels it necessary to mention that the use of the word many by the MP is far from true. Many as compared to what. Not the number of people who die of prostate cancer or die from not being able to afford heating.

So here is a question. If all these people installed CO alarms what would be the annual cost and how many lives would they be expected to save?

Compare with Alzheimers and the recent research suggesting copper pipes can heighten the risk of it . 400,000 sufferers in Britain annualy? Now that is many.

One notices that now CORGI is no longer in the business of registering Gas Engineers and collecting fees from ACS bodies, the CORGI Trust report coincidentally suggests that it is at the lowest number ever and suprise suprise linked rather more to open flued boilers and lack of servicing rather than incompetent or bad workmanship.

Same old same old from Stephanie Trotter's M.P.

Q) Why do so many MPs jump on the band-wagon?

A) it costs them nothing. It makes them look like they care. It distracts from all that nonsense about expenses claims. As to any real thought . Forget it.

Oh and if you're Stephanie Trotter's M.P. it means you won't receive letters from her demanding to know why you don't agree with her point of view.

Possibility of strike action at BG

Copied from posting on site by one of our members.

Herefordshire man fined for Health and Safety offences related to the fitting of gas appliances

Be interesting to see if there is parity over sentencing compared with news item above.

Unregistered fined for leaving boiler in unsafe condition

Sniffer has come across quite a few loft installations which were difficult to work on, but is that the same as leaving in an unsafe condition? Nothing in this article explains.

Also from the HSE site equally strange.

http://nds.coi.gov.uk/Content/detail.as ... tMode=true

Sniffer likes to have a laugh at BG's expense occasionally

Thanks to the member who has already posted it on site.

Once again Sniffer would like to draw attention to the plight of the elderly 37,600 who died of freezing weather up 12,000 on last year

As Sniffer has commented on many occasions before puts carbon monoxide incidents and the focus on them into perspective

One of our members has had this article published - care to comment anybody

Beauty and the bathroom. More like Beauty and the Beast with Simon's mugshot.

Seems more like a threat than a promise to me


Gas fitters to be subjected to greater scrutiny by Mr Taxman?

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Who's afraid of the HSE - apparently not Mr Royston Godsell

and with this level of fine no wonder.

More on the Corfu trial

Sniffer was wondering if travel reps from other countries inspect our hotels for gas Safety. Is it reasonable that all EU countries need to inspect each others hotels. For instance was the Great Western Hotel also in the news this week inspected by any other country who included it in their brochures.

Harry Rogers statement at the end is interesting at Corfu trial




When he was asked if Thomas Cook was to blame for the boiler he said that he did not know how a tour operator operates. However, he said that any reasonable person that had any knowledge of a boiler could see that there was something wrong with it.

Many reasonable people I know have no knowledge or interest in boilers.

Love in a cold climate spells death from CO for car nookie couple

Not really funny for this couple in Russia but just practising to become a Sun journalist in case the career in Gas goes pear shaped.

Katie Haines family to set up new carbon monoxide Trust

Terrible tragedy . One really feels for the people involved but it seems a shame to have all these separate organisations somehow. Its almost getting to the stage of one per victim.