LBC, on UK Politics, 13 November 2026
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Read the original article on lbc.co.uk (opens in a new tab)LBC reports that Wessex Water pleaded guilty to three health and safety offences over the 2020 Avonmouth explosion that killed four workers. It names the dead, sets out each charge, records that police found insufficient evidence for manslaughter, and attributes both the HSE's account of the company's failings and the company's apology to the people who gave them. Nothing in it misleads the reader.
“Water firm admits health and safety offences after four workers killed in blast”
The headline names the company and what it admitted, and says plainly that four workers were killed, not that lives were lost.
“Luke Wheaton, 16, from Bradley Stoke, Ray White, 57, from Portishead, Brian Vickery, 63, from Clevedon, and Mike James, 64, from Bath”
LBC gives every victim's name, age and home town early, so the dead appear as people rather than a number.
“Wessex Water failed to ensure the health, safety and welfare of all employees”
LBC sets out the substance of each charge, naming the company as the responsible party and giving the period the failures covered.
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