A year since #BaswichExplosion: Rebuilding a life from the flames...

Oct 29, 2015, 04:43 PM

(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, October 2015)

It's a year since a Stafford fireworks warehouse exploded killing two people.

The SP Plastics building in Baswich caught fire, killing a member of staff and a customer, Simon Hillier and Stewart Staples who were both from Cannock.

Several neighbouring businesses were destroyed, including Care Clothing.

It's owner Brian Stanfield spent seventeen weeks in hospital being treated for severe burns -- after being told he'd lost one million pounds in stock.

Twelve months on BBC Radio Stoke's EMMA THOMAS has been to see how life has changed since the disaster...