A mum and her three kids from Woodland had a lucky escape after battery caught alight and set both her fence and car on fire after Christmas.

The parents of two young boys died in a house fire that was started by an exploding e-bike battery, an inquest has ruled. Josh Pearson, 28, and Danielle Bamber, 24, were killed when the blaze broke ...

Exploding e-bike and e-scooter batteries emitting "jet-like flames" and toxic fumes pose an increasingly lethal danger, a probe after a series of fire deaths has heard. An inquiry into the dangers of ...

Vape users have been warned not to throw their old devices away in bins, after new figures revealed exploding “zombie batteries” are still piling up in waste centres across the UK. When devices are ...

A dustcart went up in flames for the second time this week due to batteries being incorrectly dumped in refuse bags put out for collection. The blaze happened just before 9am while the recycling wagon ...

Thousands of dodgy hearing aid batteries have been recalled because they could explode in the user's ear. Some ZeniPower mercury-free hearing aid and implant batteries are defective and the alarm was ...

A father-of-two claimed that he received second-degree burns after his vape exploded in his pocket. Builder Dave Johnson said he was rushed to hospital after the e-cigarette battery 'shorted' on his ...

As the temperature drops, motorists are more likely to find themselves stranded with a flat battery, since the cold reduces its capability to hold charge. With the weather turning wintry, knowing how ...

THOUSANDS of batteries that exploded in a horror blaze had been rotting for months after a disposal firm went bust with £2million of debts. And a councillor representing affected locals in Kilwinning, ...

Two batteries were heated to 250C and observed using both a thermal camera and a powerful synchrotron X-ray, to trace how faults arise and spread. The researchers stressed that these are extreme ...

Exploding e-bike and e-scooter batteries emitting "jet-like flames" and toxic fumes pose an increasingly lethal danger, a probe after a series of fire deaths has heard.