All the cladding on high-rise buildings judged to be potentially at risk has failed Government combustability tests, it has emerged. Communities Secretary Sajid Javid said 34 buildings in 17 local ...
Checks are being carried out on hundreds of buildings across the country, as investigations into the deadly Grenfell Tower fire continue. So far the Government has received samples from 60 high-rise ...
In the early hours of Monday morning, a fire destroyed the Spectrum Building, a seven-storey block in east London containing several floors of residential flats. It was only due to the action of ...
British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday that initial tests on other high-rise buildings after the London fire tragedy have shown that the cladding was combustible. May, made this known ...
Tower blocks in two more council areas will have cladding removed after tests revealed they contained combustible material. In a letter sent to MPs last night communties secretary Sajid Javid said ...
A report on UK building regulations set up after the Grenfell Tower tragedy found "deep flaws" in the rules but stopped short of calling for a ban on cladding, the combustible material blamed for ...
Workers have been pictured removing cladding from tower blocks today after testing showed they were potentially flammable, similar to the covering used on Grenfell Tower. Testing is still being ...
Medics treated 44 people on after a fire tore through a London tower covered in the same cladding blamed for the 2017 Grenfell Tower tragedy that killed 72 ...
MILAN (Reuters) - The mayor of Italy's financial capital Milan demanded answers on Monday over why a fire was able to rip through an apartment block and melt its cladding, comparing it to the Grenfell ...
Council tenants living in tower blocks in Bristol will have to wait six more years before dangerous cladding is replaced. Bristol City Council is planning to remove all the dangerous cladding from its ...
Potentially-dangerous cladding is still attached to the outside of three tower blocks in Tyne and Wear. But fire chiefs for the region say they are still confident of the safety of families living ...
Combustible cladding has been found in "a number" of publicly-owned tower blocks in Britain following emergency checks after a devastating fire in London, British Prime Minister Theresa May said ...