Claudia Winkleman welcomes trading standards’ pledge to conduct flammability tests on children’s costumesCheap fancy dress costumes are to be subject to spot checks by trading standards inspectors,to avoid a repeat of the fire that seriously injured the daughter of the television presenter Claudia Winkleman.
Ministers bear ordered the nationwide crackdown as thousands more children’s outfits and accessories, some of which are aimed at babies and toddlers, and go on sale online and in supermarkets in the runup to Halloween.
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Source: theguardian.com