We're a nation of self-storers – but how safe is your stuff?

There are more than 1,500 self-storage sites in the UK – but a recent fire exposed how vulnerable customers areWhen Helen Chapman* was moving home but needed somewhere to store her possessions temporarily, she checked out the cost of facilities near her home in Tottenham, north London. On her doorstep was a two-storey warehouse owned by Safehouse Self-Storage, which offered a favourable deal to hold her items for eight weeks.On the evening of 18 September 2017, events took a dramatic and u