The Whirlpool Corporation is urging people who have purchased certain brands of Hotpoint and Indesit tumble dryers to unplug their machines until they have been repaired. The company previously ...

Chief executive of watchdog the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, Leon Livermore told the BBC on Friday morning that more needed to be done about fire risk Whirlpool tumble dryers before someone ...

Millions of tumble dryers are still to be repaired in a fire safety campaign - but owners face a wait of weeks for an engineer. Owners of large air-vented dryers and condensing dryers under the ...

The government has annouced today it intends to serve Whirlpool with an “unprecedented” recall notice for tumble dryers at risk of starting fires. Consumer minister Kelly Tolhurst made the annoucement ...

Owners of potentially dangerous Hotpoint, Indesit and Creda tumble dryers have been warned by the appliances' maker Whirlpool not to use the machines until they've been repaired, in a U-turn on its ...

Owners of faulty tumble dryers will have to wait until 2017 for repairs that will prevent the machines posing a fire risk, ­manufacturer Whirlpool has said. The backlog comes after the US ­electrical ...

PEOPLE who own Hotpoint, Indesit or Creda tumble dryers have been warned the could potentially be a fire risk. A potential concern has been raised that two types of tumble dryers could present a fire ...

A safety alert has been issued to tumble dryer owners that their appliances may pose a fire risk. Indesit warned that a fault with two types of tumble dryers, condenser and vented dryers, could expose ...

TUMBLE dryer owners are being urged to take precautions and organise repairs if necessary now that a number of tumble dryer brands are reviewing the safety of their dryers. The advice from Hereford ...

A 'significant number' of tumble dryers from some of the biggest names in the business could pose a fire risk. The Hotpoint, Indesit and Creda machines have a fault where excess fluff can touch the ...