A restaurant and hotel firm has been fined £15,000

A restaurant and hotel firm has been fined £15,000 after a window cleaner was filmed balancing precariously on a ledge outside one of its buildings.

Loch Fyne admitted one breach of health and safety law and was also ordered to pay costs of £3,023.

Self-employed window cleaner Wayne Mallon was fined £2,000 on Monday.

He was seen climbing along the ledges of the third floor of the Milsoms Hotel building – owned by Loch Fyne – in Bath without ladders or safety equipment.

Mallon, of Whiteway, Bath, who works for Terry Mallon and Sons Cleaning Services, pleaded guilty to three health and safety charges at Bath Magistrates’ Court.

Lincolnshire window cleaner fined £2,500 and ordered to pay costs of £2,948.20.

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