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Grenfell Tower disaster

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  • Friday, 19 February, 2021
    Kingspan Group PLC
    Grenfell supplier Kingspan unable to quantify costs of fixing other blocks

    Insulation group says a ‘building-by-building’ examination of possible remediation cases is needed

  • Tuesday, 16 February, 2021
    Grenfell cladding burnt 10 times faster than similar product

    Inquiry hears French manufacturer did not notify customers of 2004 safety tests

  • Friday, 12 February, 2021
    London fire service has not fully learnt lessons of Grenfell, inspector warns

    Brigade cannot be sure its response to similar disaster would be ‘vastly improved’ three years after event

  • Wednesday, 10 February, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    UK government pledges extra £3.5bn to tackle cladding crisis

    Almost 4 years after Grenfell disaster, new funds will pay for repairs to unsafe high-rise buildings

  • Sunday, 7 February, 2021
    Grenfell cladding and insulation suppliers to face UK inquiry

    Arconic and Kingspan to give evidence as hearings resume into disaster in which 72 died

  • Monday, 1 February, 2021
    Labour calls on ministers to act over Grenfell cladding crisis

    Millions of leaseholders in UK face expensive improvements to meet safety regulations following the 2017 fire

  • Sunday, 20 December, 2020
    Inside BusinessJonathan Ford
    Grenfell shows the shallowness of business ethics

    Having created a dangerous problem, those responsible must be forced to clean it up

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    Residential property
    England’s cladding crisis creates 2m ‘mortgage prisoners’

    Many flats left effectively unsellable as government struggles with aftermath of Grenfell disaster

  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
    UK social housing
    English social housing reforms aim to prevent another Grenfell tragedy

    Government proposes giving tenants a greater voice and strengthening regulator’s powers

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  • Thursday, 5 November, 2020
    Grenfell cladding suppliers accused of trying to dodge fire safety rules

    Inquiry into deadly 2017 fire hears that Kingspan, Celotex and Arconic saw safety certificates as ‘mere marketing tools’

  • Thursday, 5 November, 2020
    Special ReportRisk Management: Property
    Grenfell fire leads to global safety standards

    The 2017 tragedy was a wake-up call for developers and regulators but enforcement of new rules is slow

  • Thursday, 18 June, 2020
    Thousands stuck in unsafe tower blocks three years on from Grenfell

    Spending watchdog finds less than 1% of funds to fix cladding on private apartments in England has been paid out

  • Wednesday, 4 March, 2020
    Grenfell refurbishment advisers discussed ‘massage’ of plans to fit fire safety strategy

    Proposals to add flats to block would make ‘a crap condition worse’, inquiry hears from emails

  • Monday, 2 March, 2020
    Grenfell Tower architect ‘had no cladding experience’

    Inquiry told company need further training to refurbish London flats

  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2020
    Corporate witnesses win immunity in Grenfell Tower inquiry

    Blaze survivors condemn decision that oral evidence cannot be used in criminal trial

  • Friday, 21 February, 2020
    Residential property
    Predatory investors exploit leaseholders’ cladding dilemma

    Properties changing hands for tens of thousands less than market value

  • Thursday, 6 February, 2020
    Grenfell inquiry backs bid for witnesses’ immunity

    Victims’ lawyers condemn protection from prosecution move as ‘licence to lie’

  • Thursday, 30 January, 2020
    Grenfell companies accused of killing victims in ‘pursuit of money’

    Victims’ lawyer slams ‘epidemic’ of incompetence around fire safety in tower block

  • Wednesday, 29 January, 2020
    Corporate witnesses in Grenfell inquiry seek immunity

    Lawyers representing relatives and survivors condemn request as ‘highly reprehensible’

  • Tuesday, 28 January, 2020
    Grenfell companies accused of knowing cladding risks

    Claims follow allegations that manufacturers knew materials they provided were a fire hazard

  • Monday, 27 January, 2020
    Risk from products used in Grenfell was known, inquiry told

    Suppliers criticised on first day of fresh hearings, with accusations of ‘buck-passing’

  • Wednesday, 15 January, 2020
    Call for sweeping reform of England’s fire and rescue services

    Inspector rates only one-third of providers ‘good’ in all areas

  • Monday, 16 December, 2019
    New fire certificate to unlock UK high-rise flat market

    Banks and surveyors move to tackle post-Grenfell concerns and revive apartment sales

  • Friday, 6 December, 2019
    London fire chief resigns after Grenfell criticism

    Dany Cotton’s decision to stand down four months earlier than planned welcomed by city’s mayor

  • Thursday, 21 November, 2019
    Second common cladding type raises Grenfell fire risk fears

    Research shows HPL cladding failed safety tests 80% of the time

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