Nearly 300 people were evacuated from the flats after a fire in August 2024.

On 21 December 2018 the government’s promised ban on the use of aluminium composite (ACM) cladding on residential buildings came into force. Paul Tonkin answers some key questions. The ban does not ...

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 ...

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 ...

Six of the eight hospitals told Insider they had not removed or did not plan to remove ACM cladding, the flammable building material related to the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people in 2017.

The funds are aimed at protecting residents of buildings wrapped in flammable materials from bearing the cost of making them safe. But those impacted and some lawmakers say more support is needed. By ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...