Ministers have defended dramatic cuts to fire service funding and rejected claims that lives could be put at risk.
Local Government Minister Mark Prisk said the services needed to change against a backdrop of a falling death toll in accidental house fires.
He spoke after Midland MPs John Hemming (Lib...
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