{"id":2366,"date":"2026-08-10T15:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.safetyphoto.co.uk\/safety_news\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2026-08-10T15:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:42:16","slug":"press-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.safetyphoto.co.uk\/safety_news\/?p=2366","title":{"rendered":"Press statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Health\u00a0and\u00a0Safety\u00a0Executive\u00a0confirms\u00a0investigation into Newton Longville explosion\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is investigating\u00a0the cause of an\u00a0explosion which took place in Newton Longville on Sunday morning.\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Monday 10 August,\u00a0HSE\u00a0was notified of an explosion\u00a0which\u00a0took place at\u00a09:42am\u00a0at a domestic property\u00a0on Cobb Hall Road, Newton Longville.\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Our\u00a0inspectors\u00a0have\u00a0been in\u00a0close\u00a0contact with\u00a0Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue\u00a0Service\u00a0and\u00a0Thames Valley\u00a0Police and\u00a0are\u00a0attending\u00a0the site of\u00a0the\u00a0incident\u00a0to\u00a0establish\u00a0the\u00a0cause of\u00a0the explosion.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Notes to Editors<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Thames Valley Police\u00a0is currently\u00a0responsible for the site of the incident\u00a0and road closures.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>HSE\u00a0is\u00a0responsible for\u00a0investigating potential\u00a0breaches of H<\/span><span>ealth and Safety at Work<\/span><span>\u00a0etc.<\/span><span>\u00a0Act<\/span><span>\u00a01974.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/?utm_source=press.hse.gov.uk&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=notes-to-editors\"><span>The Health and Safety Executive<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0(HSE) is Britain\u2019s national regulator for workplace health and safety.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health\u00a0and\u00a0Safety\u00a0Executive\u00a0confirms\u00a0investigation into Newton Longville explosion\u00a0 The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is investigating\u00a0the cause of an\u00a0explosion which took place in Newton Longville on Sunday morning.\u00a0\u00a0 On Monday 10 August,\u00a0HSE\u00a0was notified of an explosion\u00a0which\u00a0took place at\u00a09:42am\u00a0at a domestic property\u00a0on Cobb Hall Road, Newton Longville.\u00a0\u00a0 Our\u00a0inspectors\u00a0have\u00a0been in\u00a0close\u00a0contact with\u00a0Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue\u00a0Service\u00a0and\u00a0Thames Valley\u00a0Police and\u00a0are\u00a0attending\u00a0the site of\u00a0the\u00a0incident\u00a0to\u00a0establish\u00a0the\u00a0cause of\u00a0the explosion.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.safetyphoto.co.uk\/safety_news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.safetyphoto.co.uk\/safety_news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.safetyphoto.co.uk\/safety_news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.safetyphoto.co.uk\/safety_news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.safetyphoto.co.uk\/safety_news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.safetyphoto.co.uk\/safety_news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.safetyphoto.co.uk\/safety_news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.safetyphoto.co.uk\/safety_news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}