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reported that Vance Miller was on the run in China after evading police officers who had called at his Oldham Mill to arrest him over an alleged kidnap involving two men breaking into his mother's house. Coincidentally, a few days later, on 28 May 2007, Channel 4 screened a documentary that followed
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of the factory and ignited the contents of propane cylinders and pallets. Sixty firefighters used ten fire engines and "a number of specialist appliances, including two aerial appliances, to contain the fire." Fire
Service spokesman Paul Duggan said: "The fire is thought to have started in a diesel
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In June 2003, defending himself without lawyers, he was called "intelligent, cunning, manipulative but above all arrogant" by a
Manchester judge who jailed him for nine months for contempt of court when he failed to improve operations at his Oldham-based company, Maple Industries. He was released 2
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generator then spread to some wooden pallets and propane cylinders nearby, some of which exploded as a result. There were people inside at the time but there were no reported injuries or any reports of anyone missing." Local townspeople near the area had been left without water or very little.
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In 1977, Vance Miller got his first job at age 11, earning £200 per week for cleaning cars. By 1981, he was dealing in antiques and vintage cars from a shop in Butter Lane Market in
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raided two residential properties, one belonging to Miller, as well as the company's Maple Mill offices and factory. As a result of the raids four people, including Miller, were arrested on suspicion of
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business premises. In related incidents, his company was fined £28,500 for health and safety breaches and he was convicted for damaging the car of a journalist.
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