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.

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 ...

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 landfill sites across the UK. When devices are ...

AN investigation is underway following the discovery of fake batteries that exploded when they were taken out of a torch.Suffolk County Council's trading standards department is looking into the ...

Five people were rescued after an exploding e-bike battery caused a devastating house fire which trapped them. Firefighters rescued the residents from a property in the village of Hartland, Devon ...

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 ...

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 ...

AN investigation is underway following the discovery of fake batteries that exploded when they were taken out of a torch.Suffolk County Council's trading standards department is looking into the ...

Samsung is recalling Galaxy Note 7 smartphones after numerous reports of exploding batteries. The tech titan confirmed it is working with carrier partners on a US product exchange program. "Samsung is ...

Samsung today announced that replacement Galaxy Note 7 devices will be available in the US at "most retail locations" no later than Sept. 21. The announcement comes nearly two weeks after the company ...