Appliance manufacturer makes official move four years after fire-risk fault discovered The appliance manufacturer Whirlpool will on Monday announce a recall of an estimated 500,000 tumble dryers at risk of bursting into flames – four years after safety concerns in the UK first emerged. The move, which the government ordered in June , marks a dramatic escalation in a long-running controversy over the dryers and the company’s handling of an issue that has left hundreds of thousands of potentially dangerous machines in consumers’ homes. Continue reading...