Matt Wrack A firefighters’ leader has voiced frustration at the progress of the Grenfell Tower inquiry and said he is not hopeful that it will lead to significant change. Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), has been asking to give evidence to the inquiry on […]Click here to view original web…

Tuesday will mark the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, but around a million people still stuck in unsafe buildings across the UK are questioning why so little has changed in that time The Government has announced a raft of changes to address the cladding crisis in recent […] Click here to view original…

Workers remove panels of external cladding from Braithwaite House in north London after the Grenfell Tower fire. A total of 345,000 properties remain at risk, analysis shows Only 6 per cent of flats with flammable cladding have been made safe five years after the Grenfell Tower tragedy that killed […] Click here to view original…

The Grenfell Memorial Wall in the grounds of Kensington Aldridge Academy Thousands of families are still living in death-trap high rises wrapped in the same deadly cladding as Grenfell Tower . Nearly 500 buildings were found to be fitted with the highly flammable material soon after the inferno that […] Click here to view original…

Fire Brigades Union leader Matt Wrack has expressed disappointment at the Grenfell Inquiry (Clive Gee/PA) A firefighters’ leader has voiced frustration at the progress of the Grenfell Tower inquiry and said he is not hopeful that it will lead to significant change. Matt Wrack , general secretary of the […] Click here to view original…

No compatible source was found for this media. (Video by: Press Association) The pain is still raw; the anger undiminished. Marlene Anderson breaks down in tears as she remembers watching Grenfell Tower burning, the white ash floating out of the sky and landing on her hair and clothes, while […] Click here to view original…

Junior housing minister Eddie Hughes The government has threatened to “name and shame” housing developers who are slow to remediate unsafe buildings in a bid to speed up work. During a debate on the Social Housing and Building Safety Bill yesterday (9 June), junior housing minister Eddie Hughes said […] Click here to view original…

Unsafe cladding still not removed from Cowley tower block in wake of huge fire. A TOWER block at which a rooftop blaze broke out had no smoke alarms on its top-level and questions were raised about its cladding. More than 100 calls were made to Oxfordshire fire and rescue […] Click here to view original…

Support us and go ad-free Residents of buildings that have “fallen through the cracks” in relation to funding for the removal of dangerous cladding have called on the Government to pay for all of their costs. A Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities spokesperson said: We are bringing […] Click here to view original…

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan lays a wreath outside Grenfell Tower, London, to mark the two-year anniversary of the tower block fire (Photo by Isabel Infantes – WPA Pool/Getty Images) Sadiq Khan has branded it a “national disgrace” that almost 10,000 tower blocks still have unsafe cladding, as the […] Click here to view original…

We Live Here The latest figures from Cladding Safety Victoria (CSV) website show that about 35 per cent of cladding-affected apartment buildings have been selected for financial assistance for remediation works. Only “extreme risk” or “high risk” buildings qualify for state government funding. The CSV website shows that a […] Click here to view original…

Police have warned the public not to approach the suspect. A 14-year-old boy has died and his mother has been injured in a “ferocious” stabbing at a Manchester home. Police have warned the public not to approach the suspect following the domestic incident in Miles Platting. Officers were called […] Click here to view original…