Artist Maurice Agis’s inflatable artwork Dreamspace. Two women died when it broke free from moorings at Chester-le-Street, County Durham, in July 2006. The creator of an inflatable artwork that blew away, killing two women, won an appeal today against the £10,000 fine imposed on him for breaching health and safety regulations. Artist Maurice Agis, 77, [...]

Maurice Agis in his giant inflatable work of art work Dreamspace. Photograph: Toby Melville/PA An elderly artist whose huge inflatable “dream machine” broke loose from home-made moorings at a summer fair, killing two women trapped inside, was convicted of breaching health and safety rules yesterday.