News in Brief: 10 February 2017

A Manchester building contractor has been jailed following the death of a 45 year old labourer who fell almost 7m through a fragile warehouse roof in November 2013. Saleem Hussain had employed two labourers to carry out repair and maintenance work on the roof at Witney Mill, Manchester Crown Court heard.

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