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The Public Accounts Committee found 700,000 pupils are in schools that need major rebuilding or refurbishment as it warned the deterioration of classrooms is affecting learning

Five people were reportedly pouring concrete at Manchester Royal Infirmary when the structure beneath them gave way and they fell from the third floor to the second

A 16-year-old boy required two surgeries after he lost his finger whilst operating a machine at a food factory in Hereford - and has since said ther freak accident majorly impacted his mood and behaviour

A man whose wife and newborn son were placed in a room with a bucket to catch a leak claims he was told the room 'had been like it for years'

It is against the law for anyone to set off fireworks between 11pm and 7am in England and Wales, apart from on certain occasions - on Bonfire Night, the cut-off is midnight

Shea Ryan was playing with friends when he fell down the manhole at a building site in Drumchapel, Scotland, and drowned - now a fatal accident inquiry is to be launched

Health and Safety Executives are warning of a spike in cases of cryptosporidiosis, which is infecting those travelling to and from Spain, with vomiting and diarrhoea reported

Two other workers were badly injured weeks before engineer Michael Jones suffered fatal head injuries while working at the Premier League club’s new £500million stadium site

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT A man was trapped inside a huge oven at a kayak-making factory in Cheshire and suffered a horrific death after it was accidentally switched on in 2011

Wenceslao Donasco, a Filipino national in his 40s, died after he fell from the Viking Marsin the Highlands, he had been working on board the vessel when it docked at Invergordon on August 11

Work at the site was halted after subcontractor Michael Jones died on Monday, and Unite says Laing O’Rourke stopped its officers entering the site to freely speak to workers

Michael Jones from Kirby, reportedly suffered severe head injuries and died in hospital as stunned workers at the Everton stadium site were ordered to leave the scene

The incident was locally described as 'major' as emergency services scrambled to Bramley Moore Dock, at the construction site of Everton's new stadium, as one person was rushed to hospital where they sadly died

Experienced mountaineer Dave Fowler died alongside two others in the tragedy at Aonach Eagach ridge on Glencoe in Scotland at the weekend, Police Scotland said

Ava-May Littleboy had been enjoying a family day out at the beach at Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk, when she was put on a trampoline which exploded and threw her 'higher than a house' into the air

Experts have warned that dengue fever could become "endemic" in the UK if a risky experiment goes wrong. But some say it is inevitable that dengue will become established in the UK due to climate change, and that these experiments are vital for effective vaccines.

The 35-year-old man was struck by a heavy branch while walking on a public footpath in Wilmslow in Cheshire on Sunday afternoon, and was tragically pronounced dead at the scene

The boy was wearing a costume made of cotton wool when another child tripped while holding a candle, accidentally setting the outfit on fire at Our Lady of the Annunciation Church in Croydon in 2019

The parents in Bartley Green. Birmingham, clubbed together to buy the £600 trampoline to keep their kids away from the roads - now the council says they don't want to risk being sued over it

The Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions and the Alex Ferry Foundation launch a campaign on Thursday

As the weather turns warmer, many Brits will look towards trying out their new hot tub, or planting new flowers in their garden but what they may not know is the risk this brings of catching Legionnaires' disease

Lukasz Costazza, 30, was out with three friends in Low Hall Nature Reserve in Walthamstow, North London on June 9, 2015, when an 'old, redding, dead tree' fell on him - he sadly died at the scene

Wayne Hawkeswood and Graham Woodhouse have both been jailed after five men were killed at the Nechells metal recycling site in Birmingham when a wall collapsed on them

Steve Jeffrey went to work in London on April 20, as he usually did, before a tragic accident led to the beloved dad-of-two dying under unknown circumstances, leaving his family heartbroken

Dean Delahaye, 35, from Devon, lost eight fingers in a horrific work accident using a metal rolling machine leaving him unable to hold his newborn baby and needing 24 hour care