Blaze destroys mobile home in Redding
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on May 25, 2008
A fire started by a smoldering curtain destroyed a mobile home Saturday afternoon in the Shady Acres Mobile Home Park in Redding.
Corky Duggan, who lived in the single-wide trailer, was able to escape the flames and no one was injured, Redding Fire Department spokesman Jeff Granberry said. Firefighters were called to the fire just after [...]
Peer started hotel fire after drinking spree at dinner
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on December 15, 2007
The career of a Labour politician was in ruins last night after he admitted setting fire to a hotel when he was told he could not have more alcohol.
Lord Watson of Invergowrie, 56, is to resign from the Scottish Parliament and as a director of Dundee United and could be sent to prison when he [...]
Labour peer set fire to hotel after being refused drink
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 15, 2007
A Labour peer is to resign after admitting having deliberately started fire to a hotel’s curtains when he was refused a whisky at an awards dinner.
Mike Watson, 56, pleaded guilty to a charge of wilful fire-raising when he appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.
He admitted setting fire to a curtain at the luxury Prestonfield House Hotel [...]
Drunk peer who started fire in hotel is jailed for 16 months
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on December 15, 2007
A drunken Labour peer, who endangered lives by deliberately starting a fire in a luxury hotel, was jailed for 16 months yesterday.
Lord Watson of Invergowrie, 56, the politician who pioneered the foxhunting ban in Scotland, set fire to a curtain after staff refused to give him more drink. He had admitted a charge of wilful [...]