Episode 3

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:00:13. > :00:17.household accidents across the UK and three million others end up in

:00:18. > :00:20.A The scale of some of the potentially fatal hazards in our

:00:21. > :00:26.homes is shocking. And the actions of the dodgy and deceitful few who

:00:27. > :00:31.put lives in dangerer is scandalous. Every one of us is at risk, so take

:00:32. > :00:38.a look around and ask yourself... How safe is your house? You might

:00:39. > :00:42.not know it, but dangers exist in all our homes. In this series we

:00:43. > :00:52.reveal where you're most at risk and how to stay safe. With the help of

:00:53. > :00:56.Mark Miller, we will hunt down the dangerous tradesmen whose hazardous

:00:57. > :01:01.work leaves households all over the UK in lethal condition. This is

:01:02. > :01:05.beyond a joke. Water and electrics don't mix. I have never seen

:01:06. > :01:14.anything quite as bad as this. Go, go, go. I'm Angellica bell. I'll be

:01:15. > :01:22.with all the agencies in the UK on the frontline of the battle to keep

:01:23. > :01:27.our homes safe 24/7. If you buy from an unregulated website, you could be

:01:28. > :01:33.buying from a drug dealer. We reveal the deadly dangers that lurk in your

:01:34. > :01:42.home. I items that I found have the potential to end life.

:01:43. > :01:48.Tonight, we tackle one of the landlords whose actions put the

:01:49. > :01:53.health of families all over the UK at serious risk. They come down with

:01:54. > :01:57.blue lips, in the morning, it was heart breaking. Makes me feel like

:01:58. > :02:02.I'm failing, as a We come mum. Face to face with the invisible killer

:02:03. > :02:10.that exists in all our homes. They could turn into a death You just

:02:11. > :02:15.trap. Don't realise the danger. But first, we've come to the outskirts

:02:16. > :02:19.of Leeds in West Yorkshire to meet a couple whose builder left them with

:02:20. > :02:24.a lethal home and a bill of thousands of pounds to make it safe

:02:25. > :02:29.again. Matt, Mark, nice to meet you. Come

:02:30. > :02:33.on in. Matt and his wife live in this detached house with their son

:02:34. > :02:37.Lucas and like millions of us wanted to extend and improve their family

:02:38. > :02:44.home. What did you want your builder to do? We wanted him to convert the

:02:45. > :02:46.loft into another bedroom, replacing the boiler and fitting the kitchen.

:02:47. > :02:49.loft into another bedroom, replacing the boiler and fitting Did you have

:02:50. > :02:54.any previous -- did you have previous experience of this builder?

:02:55. > :02:59.We had used him br. He laid the wooden floor in a house and

:03:00. > :03:03.converted the garage into a At what playroom. Point time-wise did you

:03:04. > :03:07.give up hope that he would be helping you and at what state was

:03:08. > :03:11.the loft in? It was four-and-a-half months after he started. The floor

:03:12. > :03:15.was in, the stairs were in and the steel beams were in, but it was a

:03:16. > :03:22.mess. By the time their builder walked off the job, Matt and Carley

:03:23. > :03:26.had handed over almost the entire ?14,850 the job was budgeted to

:03:27. > :03:33.cost. It was everything they had in the bank, but things were about to

:03:34. > :03:40.get much worse. Had you got any idea of just how dangerous your home had

:03:41. > :03:45.become? No. What did do you? We got another builder in. He walked up the

:03:46. > :03:49.stairs into the loft, did that thing that tradesmen do, when they whistle

:03:50. > :03:54.through their teeth and told us that he wasn't sure that the loft itself

:03:55. > :04:00.was safe as it had been left. One of the main issues was that the loft

:04:01. > :04:04.floor was dangerously unsafe. During their sight visit, building control

:04:05. > :04:08.made this clear to the builder and as Mark is finding out, the second

:04:09. > :04:14.builder, brought in to fix the problems, also believed it posed a

:04:15. > :04:23.severe risk to the family. This is very nice. It is now. What were the

:04:24. > :04:28.problems and darchingers on this build? The floor was not

:04:29. > :04:31.structurally sound. It was that bad. What had happened, he had lid new

:04:32. > :04:35.timbers over the existing ceiling and boarded it. That's dangerous.

:04:36. > :04:39.That's about as dangerous as it gets. There was a steel beam here,

:04:40. > :04:45.when common knowledge amongst builders, the beam should have been

:04:46. > :04:47.down at floor level here. This steel is doing nothing and the weight of

:04:48. > :04:52.the rafters is being transferred into the floorment It's a ceiling,

:04:53. > :04:58.the original ceiling of the house. He's pushed the weight of the house

:04:59. > :05:02.onto the original ceiling. Get a load of snow on there and boom, it's

:05:03. > :05:08.gone. Lucas sleeps under here. This could have come Yeah it down? Could,

:05:09. > :05:11.That's pretty yeah. Dangerous. The hazardous work that Matt and

:05:12. > :05:14.Carley's original builder carried out in the loft is appalling, but

:05:15. > :05:20.it's not the only serious danger this family were exposed to. Matt

:05:21. > :05:23.and Carl yay sure me that their builder claims that he vets all the

:05:24. > :05:27.people that work for him. I've got a gas report here and I can assure

:05:28. > :05:30.you, the guy who fitted the gas in this house has not been vetted,

:05:31. > :05:35.because he is not registered with gas safe. That's pretty serious

:05:36. > :05:38.stuff. Gas safe registration is an industry standard, but it's also an

:05:39. > :05:42.indication of competence. That's correct. In this report, basically,

:05:43. > :05:46.I have eight defects on the work that's been done in the house. They

:05:47. > :05:51.are two of them are a risk to life and the property. We're talking

:05:52. > :05:52.about a young couple, with a very young child, and they

:05:53. > :05:56.about a young couple, with a very young child, and were at risk as a

:05:57. > :06:00.result of the trader that this builder brought in? They were

:06:01. > :06:04.seriously at risk. Matt, Carley and Lucas were exposed to the threat of

:06:05. > :06:07.carbon monoxide poisoning, but it wasn't just their health at stake.

:06:08. > :06:13.They also had to pay a heavy financial price. What has it cost

:06:14. > :06:20.you to put right the job that the original builder did? Another

:06:21. > :06:26.?17,000 on top of what we gave the first builder. We spent just over

:06:27. > :06:30.?32,000 in total. This is your dream to create a beautiful house, bring

:06:31. > :06:34.your child up in a nice place. Suddenly, somebody can come into

:06:35. > :06:39.your life and ruin it with bad workmanship. It just makes us feel

:06:40. > :06:44.so disgusting that we let this person into our house and just ruin

:06:45. > :06:47.it and make it unsafe. What course of action have you taken against

:06:48. > :06:54.him? We've taken out a County Court judgment against him. We're looking

:06:55. > :06:58.into the possibility of bailiffs, as well. Matt and Carley's dream of an

:06:59. > :07:05.improved and extended family home was left in tatters by their

:07:06. > :07:09.builder. We're going to confront him to try and get some answers about

:07:10. > :07:13.why he left their house in such a dangerous state and make sure he

:07:14. > :07:23.doesn't do the same thing to anyone else. Across the UK, there are

:07:24. > :07:27.approximately 30 million people living in rented accommodation.

:07:28. > :07:32.Whilst the majority of homes are safe, many are living in dangerously

:07:33. > :07:38.substandard conditions. It's the job of housing officers to deal with the

:07:39. > :07:44.growing problem of rogue landlords renting out hazardous homes. In

:07:45. > :07:50.Peterborough I meet a couple living in a seriously unsafe house.

:07:51. > :08:00.Hello. You must be Martin. I'm Peter from the Council. Martin and Sam

:08:01. > :08:04.live in this two-bed semi with their two young daughters. And there are a

:08:05. > :08:10.number of problems in the house that their landlord is doing nothing

:08:11. > :08:14.about. The main things are the radiators. None of them really work

:08:15. > :08:18.properly. Occasion ally maybe. The gas fire is the only thing that

:08:19. > :08:22.works properly. We have the boiler that leaks. Damp in the bedroom.

:08:23. > :08:28.Debris is coming through the ceiling. Peter needs to carry out a

:08:29. > :08:31.survey of their home. There are 29 categories of potential housing

:08:32. > :08:36.hazards to assess. Three quarter of a million of us live with serious

:08:37. > :08:40.category one issues, like inadequate heating, lack of fire alarms and

:08:41. > :08:46.poor security, which pose a severe threat to our health or safety Tell

:08:47. > :08:50.me how you came to rent this property. We were in a hostel. We

:08:51. > :08:55.were evicted from our previous house. The landlord wanted to sell

:08:56. > :09:00.it. All we had was the room. We had to have all our stuff in that room.

:09:01. > :09:05.There were three single beds and a travel cot. When the first house

:09:06. > :09:12.came up, we just leapt on it. Didn't we? Yes. We wanted a nice home for

:09:13. > :09:17.the Even thop girls. It was in such bad condition. When we first moved

:09:18. > :09:21.in it was coming into summer. You couldn't feel the cold. The damp we

:09:22. > :09:25.could see, the landlord told us it had been dealt with. How do you live

:09:26. > :09:31.in a cold house? It's really hard. The girls have had numerous colds

:09:32. > :09:34.and you have to put vests and tights, pajamas on top of that, plus

:09:35. > :09:37.a onesie. If we don't do that, they come down with blue lips in the

:09:38. > :09:43.morning. It's heart breaking. It really is. How does that make you

:09:44. > :09:49.feel? Like I'm failing, I think, a bit, a as a mum. -- as a mum. As

:09:50. > :09:53.part of a mum and dad's role, you're meant to protect your child. During

:09:54. > :09:57.winter, it's best to keep the temperature in your house above 18

:09:58. > :10:00.Celsius, as cold can cause life-threatening health problems,

:10:01. > :10:05.such as pneumonia and even heart attacks. The lack of heating in the

:10:06. > :10:09.couple's house is putting the health of the whole family at risk. Martin

:10:10. > :10:18.and Sam are desperate to hear if Peter is going to do anything about

:10:19. > :10:22.the conditions in their home. The house is sadly lacking adequate

:10:23. > :10:26.heating. Our next course of action will be to take what we call

:10:27. > :10:29.statutory action against your landlord. We set a start date and

:10:30. > :10:35.finish date by which the landlord has to comply with that legal

:10:36. > :10:38.notice. This is a landlord that Peter has had problems with in the

:10:39. > :10:43.past. And because the lack of heating in the family's home is such

:10:44. > :10:47.a serious issue, Peter's given him just seven days to fix it. If he

:10:48. > :10:51.doesn't comply, I'll be putting recommendations forward to prosecute

:10:52. > :10:56.him. We owe it to the good landlords in the city of Peterborough to take

:10:57. > :11:01.that sort of action. We've got a zero tolerance on it. It's just not

:11:02. > :11:06.acceptable to have a landlord just thinking he can get away with doing

:11:07. > :11:12.repairs. It is their duty to keep their properties in good repair. We

:11:13. > :11:19.shouldn't have to do that. They should know that and do it. One week

:11:20. > :11:22.later, the deadline for the land p Lord to carry -- landlord to carry

:11:23. > :11:26.out the work is approaching. We have children in the house that are more

:11:27. > :11:29.likely to suffer ill health, if we don't have heating in at this time

:11:30. > :11:35.of year, we know what the consequences could be. It's crunch

:11:36. > :11:39.time. I'll be back with Peter soon, as he continues to crack down on one

:11:40. > :11:42.of the rogue landlords that threaten the health and safety of so many of

:11:43. > :11:53.us and tries to make Martin and Sam's home safe to live in.

:11:54. > :11:57.Last year, 70 people were killed in the UK by faulty household

:11:58. > :12:01.electrics, and hundreds of thousands more were injured. Experts recommend

:12:02. > :12:07.getting our electrics checked every time we move home or every five

:12:08. > :12:12.years. But how many of us actually do it? Good question. I don't know

:12:13. > :12:16.the last time I had my electrics checked. A couple of years ago, I

:12:17. > :12:22.think. I don't think I have had it checked actually! We had the house

:12:23. > :12:26.rewired when we moved into it. But that's probably, you know, two or

:12:27. > :12:33.three decades ago. For most of us, getting our electrics checked isn't

:12:34. > :12:37.top of the to-do list. But as a mother and grandmother, Jane knows

:12:38. > :12:44.dodgy electrics can have devastating consequences. First, I was a very

:12:45. > :12:54.sociable person. Loved being with people, loved parties. Fred was

:12:55. > :13:03.away. Faulty wiring in an appliance nearby had earthed itself through

:13:04. > :13:10.the pipes, I think, and into the bath. There was no earth to make it

:13:11. > :13:17.safe. So when she got in the bath and touched the taps, she would have

:13:18. > :13:26.had apparently a huge electric shock and I'm told, was killed

:13:27. > :13:30.immediately. In the morning, Milly couldn't hear mummy. She went to

:13:31. > :13:35.look for mummy and found her. She said she realised that mummy was

:13:36. > :13:39.dead. She was only five. There was an earth wire, but because it hadn't

:13:40. > :13:44.been checked, it runs outside and then a spike into the ground, it had

:13:45. > :13:48.corroded. So it was on sometimes and not at others. If it had been

:13:49. > :13:58.earthed, then she wouldn't have died. This is just heart breaking,

:13:59. > :14:02.but it has to be said because other - you know, you wouldn't want

:14:03. > :14:13.anybody else to lose somebody so precious. The story is heart

:14:14. > :14:19.breaking and highlights that getting your electrics checked needs to be a

:14:20. > :14:24.priority. One family who haven't are quality control technician Richard

:14:25. > :14:28.and his wife, Sonia, who live with their two-year-old daughter Isobel,

:14:29. > :14:31.just outside When we Hull. Bought the house we assumed that the

:14:32. > :14:36.electrics would be all right, that it was outside -- outof sight, out

:14:37. > :14:40.of mind. We had a problem with the electrics, when we tried to plug the

:14:41. > :14:44.Hoover in, when I pushed the plug it, in sparks. If you plug something

:14:45. > :14:49.in here when there's stuff on in the dining room, it will blow a fuse in

:14:50. > :14:52.the circuit board. I don't know how dangerous the electrics are in this

:14:53. > :14:58.house. I don't feel it's dangerous to the point of death, or anything

:14:59. > :15:04.daft, but I do feel that it does need addressing. Most of us share

:15:05. > :15:07.Richard and Sonia's out of sight, out of mind attitude to the

:15:08. > :15:13.electrics in our homes and like them, have no idea whether they are

:15:14. > :15:19.dangerous or not. To find out more about how safe their house is, we

:15:20. > :15:23.arrange for electrical -- an electrical inspector to have a look.

:15:24. > :15:28.I have a metal switch here. There's no earth in this lighting circuit,

:15:29. > :15:31.that's a big concern. As well as the unearthed light circuit connected to

:15:32. > :15:34.metal light fittings, unearthed light circuit connected to

:15:35. > :15:37.metal light other discoveries included dangerous sockets, dodgy

:15:38. > :15:44.wiring, Anderson exposed junction box. His overall verdict was scary.

:15:45. > :15:48.The items that I found have the potential to end life. It doesn't

:15:49. > :15:52.take much at all to kill you. Ape order and Sonia are living in a

:15:53. > :15:55.death -- Richard and Sonia are living in a death trap. These

:15:56. > :16:01.problems exist in homes across the UK. Many of us just don't know it.

:16:02. > :16:04.Darren has reported his findings to them and to demonstrate the

:16:05. > :16:08.potentially fatal power of electricity, we're all living with,

:16:09. > :16:16.we've brought them to a specially-rigged studio in Bristol.

:16:17. > :16:22.Welcome. Nice to meet you both. How are you feeling about what you have

:16:23. > :16:28.heard? It is a worry. We live with these things every day. It is more

:16:29. > :16:33.than a worry. Open, live circuits. Unearthed light switches and you

:16:34. > :16:37.touch them as well. They look fancy. But they could be an absolute death

:16:38. > :16:44.trap. You just don't realise the danger. It is always good to seek

:16:45. > :16:48.advice from professionals. To highlight the risks that faulty

:16:49. > :16:54.electrics opposed to all of us when making the invisible visible, I am

:16:55. > :16:57.asking Sonia to touch a deadly electrical fault. The special

:16:58. > :17:02.chainmail suit will keep her safe because it is a better conductor of

:17:03. > :17:05.electricity than we are, so electricity will flow through it

:17:06. > :17:09.rather than through her, but she will still experience it's

:17:10. > :17:31.frightening power. How are you feeling?

:17:32. > :17:39.The electrical balk shows the deadly force that is lurking behind our

:17:40. > :17:40.walls. Because we can't see it, most of us don't worry about it until it

:17:41. > :18:15.is too late. What did it actually feel like? It

:18:16. > :18:21.was terrifying. When it first went on and it came to me, you know...

:18:22. > :18:24.The whole purpose of this was to underline to you two just how

:18:25. > :18:33.dangerous electricity can be in the home. As it's changed your

:18:34. > :18:38.perspective? -- has it changed? Until you do something like this,

:18:39. > :18:42.you don't know how intense it really is. Having experienced its killer

:18:43. > :18:45.power and heard Darren's verdict about the dangers in her home,

:18:46. > :18:55.Richard and Sonia have called in experts. We were naive to think it

:18:56. > :19:00.is safe. It makes you realise how important it is to get little things

:19:01. > :19:04.done. It looks like we got to the couple just in time. When somebody

:19:05. > :19:08.put the floorboard down, they have nailed through the live conductor

:19:09. > :19:12.and a nail was live when we lifted the floor. Yes, it could have killed

:19:13. > :19:19.somebody because there was no RCD protection. The RCD is a switch

:19:20. > :19:23.designed to trip when electricity flows out of the house through

:19:24. > :19:28.anything other than the earth wire. Put simply, it is a life-saver. I

:19:29. > :19:42.feel like we have moved into a new house, even though it is the same

:19:43. > :19:48.house. I feel a lot saved. -- safer. In Peterborough, the rogue

:19:49. > :19:54.landlord that Peter is dealing with has failed to sort out the freezing

:19:55. > :19:58.conditions in Martin and Sam's home. The landlord has had his seven days

:19:59. > :20:03.to fix the heating and he has not complied with the legal requirement

:20:04. > :20:06.of the notice. So what I shall be doing is to recommend prosecution

:20:07. > :20:12.proceedings on the basis that he has not complied with a legal notice.

:20:13. > :20:15.Across the UK, 1 million of us say our help has been affected by

:20:16. > :20:23.landlords not carrying out repairs in our homes, -- health. Peter and

:20:24. > :20:29.his colleagues are cracking down on them and taking action to make sure

:20:30. > :20:36.the places we live in our safe. How are you? We are back with a special

:20:37. > :20:39.delivery. The landlord is facing a fine of ?2500 for ignoring the

:20:40. > :20:44.notice served on him and he will still have to sort out a permanent

:20:45. > :20:49.heating solution and paid for the temporary heaters. It is a result

:20:50. > :20:54.for Martin and Sam but Peter's survey of their home turned up more

:20:55. > :20:59.problems that need to be dealt with. What have you found in the kitchen?

:21:00. > :21:06.Anything specific that stands out? The kitchen door has seen better

:21:07. > :21:11.days. It is not very good or secure. This is the only means of securing

:21:12. > :21:16.the door. The original locking system is no longer there. It is

:21:17. > :21:24.almost free access. Upstairs there are other problems. This ceiling is

:21:25. > :21:28.breaking down. It has been breaking down over a long period of time and

:21:29. > :21:33.it gets progressively worse and the ceiling cannot hold any longer and

:21:34. > :21:38.it is breaking down. Look at the pillow. If you were sleeping, that

:21:39. > :21:44.would be in your face. How serious is that? It is breaking down in its

:21:45. > :21:47.integrity. Like Sam and Martin, millions of people rent their homes

:21:48. > :21:51.and have problems with damp and leaking windows but there are a

:21:52. > :21:57.dozen other issues that the landlord has to fixed to make the house fit

:21:58. > :22:01.and save to live in. It is not a lot to ask a landlord to repair a house

:22:02. > :22:06.that he should have repaired in the first place. It is only making

:22:07. > :22:10.somewhere suitable to live in and that is his obligation in the first

:22:11. > :22:14.place. We are not asking for the world. The landlord has been

:22:15. > :22:18.dragging his heels about fixing the other issues in this home, but

:22:19. > :22:22.several weeks after being issued with two more legal notices to fix

:22:23. > :22:27.them, he finally seems to be taking the problem seriously. We are having

:22:28. > :22:34.a meeting with the landlord and Peter here. Basically just to

:22:35. > :22:40.discuss what needs to be done and why it has not been done and when it

:22:41. > :22:44.is going to be done. How are you feeling about it? Quite happy. Since

:22:45. > :22:48.I have been here, the landlord has never been in this house. I don't

:22:49. > :22:53.know if he was before we moved in but I don't think he has ever seen

:22:54. > :22:58.the state of the house. If he is coming in today, I can show him

:22:59. > :23:04.round, show him the problems, so he actually knows what we are living

:23:05. > :23:08.in. So far the landlord has shown very little intention of fixing the

:23:09. > :23:14.issues in Martin and Sam's home and a meeting could start to move things

:23:15. > :23:18.forward. Later in the day, Peter has bad news. The landlord said he will

:23:19. > :23:25.not be coming. He did not explain any more than that, he just said he

:23:26. > :23:30.would not come and that was it. I am really disappointed. Shall I meet

:23:31. > :23:35.you at the house? Fine. This is another blow for Martin and Sam.

:23:36. > :23:39.They just want a safe family home for themselves and their girls. They

:23:40. > :23:44.have put themselves out and he has not bothered to show up. Martin had

:23:45. > :23:48.to cancel a job this morning that he was supposed to do because the

:23:49. > :23:53.landlord was coming. How long has the landlord got before this

:23:54. > :23:57.situation gets more serious? It is already serious. We are at the

:23:58. > :24:03.formal notice stage, taking statutory action. It is already

:24:04. > :24:08.serious. He has seven weeks now to get the work completed. Do you think

:24:09. > :24:13.it will be sorted? I don't think so, not on time. Seven weeks later,

:24:14. > :24:18.Martin was right. The landlord solved very few problems. The

:24:19. > :24:22.council moved in and fixed the back door to make their home safe and

:24:23. > :24:26.secure as well as the damp in the bedroom and the other issues needed

:24:27. > :24:30.to bring the home up to a liveable standard and the landlord is being

:24:31. > :24:36.prosecuted. He will have to foot the bill of ?10,000 for the work they

:24:37. > :24:48.carried out. As well as facing fines of ?7,500.

:24:49. > :24:55.In Leeds, we are on the trail of a builder who walked away from a job

:24:56. > :25:00.leaving Matt and Kali with a seriously hazardous home, and a bill

:25:01. > :25:06.of thousands of pounds to sort out the dangerous mess that he left

:25:07. > :25:10.behind. Just coming up to 6:30am and the good news is that we think we

:25:11. > :25:13.have managed to track down this builder. Obviously we have several

:25:14. > :25:21.questions to ask him. Let's get going. The builder left their home

:25:22. > :25:26.in a terrible condition with a dangerous loft floor, illegal and

:25:27. > :25:31.lethal gasworks, and a county court judgement against them for over

:25:32. > :25:35.?17,000. We are going to confront him and make sure he thinks twice

:25:36. > :25:41.about leaving anyone else's home in such an dangerous condition. We are

:25:42. > :25:47.heading towards his house now and we have had surveillance on the job

:25:48. > :25:53.before today. On that occasion he left home at 8:30am. We just have to

:25:54. > :26:01.stay came out until he comes out. Hopefully I will get some answers.

:26:02. > :26:06.-- stake him out. This guy lives 100 metres down the street. We are

:26:07. > :26:10.clocking the house the whole time, watching out for a twitch of the

:26:11. > :26:15.curtains, which we have just had. When he emerges from the front door,

:26:16. > :26:26.we will judge a 2p and hopefully get answers to these questions. -- judge

:26:27. > :26:29.a point to pounce. It is time to get some answers and find out why this

:26:30. > :26:36.builder turned this home into a hazardous building site. It is

:26:37. > :26:42.8:30am, bang on the moment he left for work last time. These could be

:26:43. > :26:52.workmates. Two blokes. Yes, they are going with him. We are just waiting.

:26:53. > :27:06.Go, go, go. Good morning, boys. Mark Clemmit,

:27:07. > :27:12.BBC television. I want to ask you a few questions if I can about some

:27:13. > :27:19.work that you have done. Can you tell us why you left their home in

:27:20. > :27:27.such a dangerous state, please? You didn't? You didn't? Why the county

:27:28. > :27:31.court judgement against you? You need to answer these questions.

:27:32. > :27:36.After we caught him on the way to work, the builder got in touch and

:27:37. > :27:40.told us that extra uncontracted jobs meant that he had to leave the

:27:41. > :27:44.project but he would not tell us what they were. He also claimed his

:27:45. > :27:48.work on the loft floor was signed off by building control and the

:27:49. > :27:54.lethal gasworks was nothing to do with him, as he asked the engineer

:27:55. > :28:08.for his safety ID number. We spoke to building control who revealed

:28:09. > :28:10.that they had not signed off the loft floor, and despite his claims

:28:11. > :28:12.that all the trades men he uses are vetted, one quick phone call

:28:13. > :28:15.revealed that the engineer who worked on this house was not gas

:28:16. > :28:20.safe registered. The builder is also facing serious consequences because

:28:21. > :28:24.a High Court officer has been brought in to enforce the county

:28:25. > :28:27.court judgement. The builder is contesting this but they have heard

:28:28. > :29:05.nothing from him and if he does not pay up, he could be made bankrupt.

:29:06. > :29:08.Hello, I'm Ellie Crisell with your 90 second update.

:29:09. > :29:11.A train carrying bodies of Malaysian plane victims has begun moving out

:29:12. > :29:13.of rebel-held Ukraine. Earlier pro-Russian forces allowed

:29:14. > :29:16.Dutch forensic experts on board. Here a memorial service has been

:29:17. > :29:20.held for two Newcastle supporters. The drugs trial of

:29:21. > :29:21.Tulisa Contostavlos has collapsed. The judge said there were