LONDON (Reuters) - The government is urgently conducting safety checks on an estimated 600 high-rise buildings in England which have exterior cladding panels after at least 79 people died when fire ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. London’s Camden borough council is to remove cladding from five tower blocks after tests following the Grenfell ...

15:12, Thu, Jun 22, 2017 Updated: 22:22, Thu, Jun 22, 2017 Theresa May announced the cladding used in the tower was "combustible" and ordered an urgent review of materials used in other UK tower ...

The five tower blocks of the Chalcots Estate are fitted with the same external thermal cladding as Grenfell Tower Camden Council has said it will remove external thermal cladding from five tower ...

Cladding may have played a part in the June 14 disaster when flames sped through the 24-storey residential building. The government is urgently conducting safety checks on an estimated 600 high-rise ...