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Mill managers cleared of health and safety charges following explosion which killed four people

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Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter Two mill managers have been cleared of health and safety offences following an explosion which killed four people.

The blast at the wood mill in Bosley, Cheshire, on July 17 2015 killed cleaner Dorothy Bailey, 62, maintenance fitter Derek William Barks, known as Will, 51, mill worker Derek Moore, 62, and chargehand Jason Shingler, 38, whose body was never recovered.

Mill manager Peter Shingler, 56, of Tunstall Road, Bosley, and operations manager Philip Smith, 58, of Raglan Road, Macclesfield, had each been charged with a health and safety offence but on Friday, following a 12-week trial, the jury was directed to return not guilty verdicts.

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