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A group of Manchester-based cladding campaigners has written to the housing secretary setting out its demands as anger over the lack of decisive government action on all forms of dangerous cladding ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A widely used cladding, known as high-pressure laminate, is at least as flammable as the type targeted by a UK ...

Removing dangerous cladding from buildings will take a "number of years", the housing secretary has told Sky News. Robert Jenrick said he did not want to give people "false hope" by saying the issue ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Some building companies that installed dangerous cladding on social housing blocks across Britain are now winning new contracts following the Grenfell Tower blaze to remove their ...

Government moves to deal with the fallout from dangerous cladding leaves solicitors, in Sarah Dwight's view, unable to properly advise clients On the 10 February, housing secretary Robert Jenrick gave ...

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More people could be living in “potential death traps” than previously thought after it was revealed a second type of cladding should be removed from towerblocks two years after the Grenfell disaster.

A fire destroyed Grenfell Tower in June 2017, with the loss of 72 lives The firm that sold the cladding used at Grenfell Tower knew about the risk of fires in 2013, but continued to offer a flammable ...