In the immediate aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire last year, a number of local authorities sent samples of aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding taken from council-owned buildings to a ...

The capital has more than double the number of dangerous buildings than the rest of the country put together, the Mayor said ...

As recently as 2014, the UK government was warned of the risks of using combustible aluminum composite material (ACM) cladding on buildings and did nothing to stop its use or warn the population. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Covered remains of Grenfell Tower seen, as report from UK public inquiry into the deadly 2017 Grenfell fire published, in London ...

Flammable cladding similar to the material which had covered Grenfell Tower is still being widely used across the UK. The combustible cladding used on Grenfell was a significant factor in allowing the ...

Social housing is being demolished or sold off as owners cannot afford repair bills to make the properties safe in the wake ...

The London Fire Brigade (LFB) is yet to determine whether ACM cladding played a part in a fire at a Ballymore residential building earlier this month. The fire at the developer’s 19-storey New ...

Emergency services were called to a 19-storey tower-block over the weekend when a fire broke out at New Providence Wharf development, near Canary Wharf, which reportedly had cladding similar to that ...

LONDON (Reuters) -A public inquiry into the devastating 2017 London Grenfell Tower blaze concluded on Wednesday that a "culmination of decades of failure" by the government and the construction ...