Cladding

Drone footage shows firefighters tackling Dagenham blaze A resident who fled a burning tower block in east London has told the BBC he fears he and his family have lost everything. Tariq Ziad, 17, has described seeing smoke quickly fill his fourth floor flat in Dagenham as flames engulfed […] Click here to view original…

Families who fled from a burning tower block in the early hours of this morning have spoken of their fury after Grenfell Tower-style cladding had not been removed from the building. Some 40 fire engines and 225 firefighters have been battling the fire on Freshwater Road in Dagenham, east […] Click here to view original…

Editorial : The time has long since passed for official, bureaucratic inertia to be cleared away and replaced with a campaign of building works driven forward by the highest level of government In what has been declared a ‘major incident’, 100 people were evacuated and two were taken to […] Click here to view original…

Cladding being removed from building at time of fire to form part of probe into huge blaze which saw two people taken to hospital and more than 100 people evacuated The London Fire Brigade will investigate “fire safety issues” at a high rise residential and commercial block in east […] Click here to view original…

London Fire Brigade said scaffolding surrounding the building was alight, as well as parts of the building and the roof (Photo: LFB/Getty) A “significant” search and rescue operation is under way after two people were taken to hospital and more than 100 evacuated when a huge fire broke out […] Click here to view original…

Chapters descriptions off, selected captions settings, opens captions settings dialog captions off, selected This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. End of dialog window. This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or […] Click here to view original…

Grenfell Tower fire in London killed 72 people. -AP Cladding filled with combustible material was allegedly marketed as safe throughout Australia, despite being linked to major blazes worldwide including London’s catastrophic Grenfell Tower fire. Click here to view original web page at www.sheppnews.com.au

Matt Wrack has slammed the ‘disgusting’ lack of action from the government since Grenfell. Picture: Alamy The head of the Fire Brigades Union has branded government inaction since the Grenfell Tower tragedy “disgusting”. Listen to this article Loading audio… Speaking exclusively to LBC, Matt Wrack, the union’s general secretary, […] Click here to view original…

In total, 55 companies signed a “developer remediation contract” with the government in 2023 Angela Rayner’s housing department has launched a searing attack on builders for failing to remove Grenfell-style cladding. The housing minister Rushanara Ali has summoned major developers to a ministerial roundtable after accusing them of dragging […] Click here to view original…

Lucy Tissington bought the property in 2017 A woman who says she is unable to sell her flat due to its cladding has described the “huge emotional impact” the situation is having on her. Leaseholder Lucy Tissington said it had been almost impossible for potential buyers to get a […] Click here to view original…