The centuries-old trade is enjoying something of a revival, partly driven by rising energy costs. Today’s sweeps use new tools and technology.

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A new specialist company, Millars Pumps, is bringing innovative Italian fire safety solutions to the UK construction market, ...

A recent report suggests that banning the use of solid fuels like wood and log burners in UK homes could prevent 1,500 deaths each year and save an impressive £54m in NHS funds. Environmental ...

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The owners of the Swiss bar that was engulfed by flames killing at least 47 people and injuring 115 others have links to the UK, it has emerged today. Jacques Moretti and his wife Jessica opened the ...

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Three people are unaccounted for after a house fire in the early hours of Boxing Day, police have said. Emergency teams were called to a property on Brimscombe Hill, near Stroud, at around 3am, a ...

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Baked soil, ancient tools and materials that could be used to start fires show that Neanderthals were making fire in the UK 400,000 years ago — the earliest evidence of this skill found so far.

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Sanofi has become the latest Big Pharma to freeze R&D investment decisions in the U.K., while Roche confirmed it is staying put—for now. The news that Sanofi won’t consider “any substantial investment ...