diff --git a/src/js/core/Dish.js b/src/js/core/Dish.js
index e4db35bd..27fcdc06 100755
--- a/src/js/core/Dish.js
+++ b/src/js/core/Dish.js
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Dish.prototype.translate = function(toType) {
             this.type = Dish.BYTE_ARRAY;
             break;
         case Dish.HTML:
-            this.value = this.value ? Utils.strToByteArray(Utils.stripHtmlTags(this.value, true)) : [];
+            this.value = this.value ? Utils.strToByteArray(Utils.unescapeHtml(Utils.stripHtmlTags(this.value, true))) : [];
             this.type = Dish.BYTE_ARRAY;
             break;
         default:
diff --git a/src/js/core/Utils.js b/src/js/core/Utils.js
index 9619f0b2..9ef0b2b1 100755
--- a/src/js/core/Utils.js
+++ b/src/js/core/Utils.js
@@ -928,6 +928,33 @@ var Utils = {
     },
 
 
+    /**
+     * Unescapes HTML tags in a string to make them render again.
+     *
+     * @param {string} str
+     * @returns string
+     *
+     * @example
+     * // return "A <script> tag"
+     * Utils.unescapeHtml("A &lt;script&gt; tag");
+     */
+    unescapeHtml: function(str) {
+        var HTML_CHARS = {
+            "&amp;":  "&",
+            "&lt;":   "<",
+            "&gt;":   ">",
+            "&quot;": '"',
+            "&#x27;": "'",
+            "&#x2F;": "/",
+            "&#x60;": "`"
+        };
+
+        return str.replace(/&#?x?[a-z0-9]{2,4};/ig, function (match) {
+            return HTML_CHARS[match] || match;
+        });
+    },
+
+
     /**
      * Expresses a number of milliseconds in a human readable format.
      *
diff --git a/test/tests/operations/StrUtils.js b/test/tests/operations/StrUtils.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0d91d181
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/tests/operations/StrUtils.js
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+/**
+ * StrUtils tests.
+ *
+ * @author n1474335 [n1474335@gmail.com]
+ * @copyright Crown Copyright 2017
+ * @license Apache-2.0
+ */
+TestRegister.addTests([
+    {
+        name: "Regex, non-HTML op",
+        input: "/<>",
+        expectedOutput: "/<>",
+        recipeConfig: [
+            {
+                "op": "Regular expression",
+                "args": ["User defined", "", true, true, false, "Highlight matches"]
+            },
+            {
+                "op": "Remove whitespace",
+                "args": [true, true, true, true, true, false]
+            }
+        ],
+    },
+]);