Weston-super-Mare pier fire: Alarm company to blame

A judge has decided that an alarm company was to blame for a fire which devastated Weston-super-Mare's pier pavilion in July 2008.

Judge Mark Havelock-Allan found the firm was responsible for a high degree of negligence and awarded an immediate payment of £30m plus interest to the pier's owners Kerry and Michelle Michael.

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