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BBC News
16-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Barton Mills car wash owner fined £180k for illegal workers
A hand car wash owner has been fined £180,000 and banned as a company director for seven years after employing four illegal Dragoti, 28, of Queensway, Mildenhall, Suffolk, hired workers from Romania at the Fiveways Car Wash on the Fiveways Roundabout near the A11 at Barton workers were discovered when immigration enforcement officials visited the car wash last year, according to the Insolvency Service. Dave Magrath, director of investigation and enforcement services at the Insolvency Service, said company directors had "clear statutory obligations to recruit people" with the right to work in the UK. Officials found the Romanian men, aged between 18 and 49, with no right to work in the UK when the car wash was visited last Insolvency Service said Dragoti was the sole director of Vito's Car Care Limited, the company in charge of the car wash, and the fine remained unpaid. He is prevented from becoming involved in the promotion, formation or management of a company, without the permission of a court."Vittorio Dragoti's disqualification as a company director is a result of ongoing close collaboration between the Insolvency Service and our partners at the Home Office to clamp down on rogue directors," Mr Magrath Daldry, the Home Office's East of England immigration compliance and enforcement lead, said the case was a "great example of the serious consequences that are in store for business owners who fail to carry out checks on individuals they hire to ensure they have the right to work in the UK"."Dragoti flouted our employment and immigration rules by employing multiple people with no right to work in the UK, resulting in long-term enforcement action against himself and his business," she added. Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Fire crews return to woodland as blaze reignites
Crews have returned to the scene of a forest fire for a second day after it reignited. Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service staff travelled to a remote area close to Barton Mills, near Mildenhall, at 05:00 BST for an inspection after Monday's incident. They saw a large plume of smoke from a distance and, upon arrival, found 150m (492ft) of forest undergrowth well alight. Six pumps have been called back to the scene, where eight fire crews and a tanker from RAF Lakenheath tackled the blaze on Monday. Jon Lacey, the chief fire officer for Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service, told BBC Radio Suffolk he expected the crews to be "in and out" of the forest over the next few days. "We'll keep vigilant, we'll keep an eye on the weather... we'll be checking how dry the woodland is, making sure fires don't restart after they've been extinguished and we regularly go back to check them," he said. Mr Lacey said the fire service had seen a busier start to this year's wildfire season, likely due to previous wet weather causing foliage and grass to grow before recent warm weather dried it all out. The cause of the fire is unknown at the moment, as Mr Lacey said it could be hard to determine where wildfires begin, but investigations were ongoing. He urged people to remain cautious: "Please be careful not to have barbecues, open fires, or discard your cigarettes or matches anywhere where there might be forest, woodland or grass." Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X. Eight fire crews and RAF tanker fight forest blaze Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Fire crews return to woodland as blaze reignites
Crews have returned to the scene of a forest fire for a second day after it reignited. Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service staff travelled to a remote area close to Barton Mills, near Mildenhall, at 05:00 BST for an inspection after Monday's incident. They saw a large plume of smoke from a distance and, upon arrival, found 150m (492ft) of forest undergrowth well alight. Six pumps have been called back to the scene, where eight fire crews and a tanker from RAF Lakenheath tackled the blaze on Monday. Jon Lacey, the chief fire officer for Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service, told BBC Radio Suffolk he expected the crews to be "in and out" of the forest over the next few days. "We'll keep vigilant, we'll keep an eye on the weather... we'll be checking how dry the woodland is, making sure fires don't restart after they've been extinguished and we regularly go back to check them," he said. Mr Lacey said the fire service had seen a busier start to this year's wildfire season, likely due to previous wet weather causing foliage and grass to grow before recent warm weather dried it all out. The cause of the fire is unknown at the moment, as Mr Lacey said it could be hard to determine where wildfires begin, but investigations were ongoing. He urged people to remain cautious: "Please be careful not to have barbecues, open fires, or discard your cigarettes or matches anywhere where there might be forest, woodland or grass." Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X. Eight fire crews and RAF tanker fight forest blaze Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service
BBC News
13-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Crews return to Barton Mills forest fire after it reignites
Crews have returned to the scene of a forest fire for a second day after it Fire and Rescue Service staff travelled to a remote area close to Barton Mills, near Mildenhall, at 05:00 for an inspection after Monday's saw a large plume of smoke from a distance and, upon arrival, found 150m (492ft) of forest undergrowth well pumps have been called back to the scene, where eight fire crews and a tanker from RAF Lakenheath tackled the blaze on Monday. Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
