THE manager of a block of flats where two teenage jockeys died in a blaze has appeared in court charged with breaching fire regulations.

Alan Foster, 65, faces charges relating to The Tannery in Buckrose Court, Norton, where Jan Wilson and Jamie Kyne died in September 2009.

Foster, also of Buckrose Court in Commercial Street, appeared before York Crown Court on Monday on 17 charges relating to fire precautions.

He was granted unconditional bail to appear at court on November 8.