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Tenants in social housing will now have the legal right to smoke and carbon monoxide alarms for the first time following the Grenfell Tower fire. Government ministers are set to announce the plans in order to put a stop to a law which sees tenants living in council housing given less protection than those living … Read more
Ex employee at firm that produced flammable insulation on Grenfell Tower admitted firm was ‘dishonest’ by ‘overengineering’ fire safety test to achieve pass Jonathan Roper worked as an assistant product manager for the firm Celotex Said firm ‘dishonest’ by ‘overengineering’ cladding fire safety test to get a pass Firm used second system pass to erroneously … Read more
The makers of Grenfell Tower’s cladding system have been accused of being ‘little more than crooks and killers’, the inquiry into the disaster has heard. The manufacturers were also said to have promoted construction materials despite knowing they ‘would burn with lethal speed’. Lawyers for a group of bereaved, survivors and residents told the public … Read more
Police make first arrest in investigation into Grenfell Tower blaze that killed 72 people in 2017 Unnamed man, 38, was arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice He was taken to local police station and since been released under investigation The arrest was not made in relation to the public Grenfell Tower inquiry … Read more
Multi-billion pound firm that supplied Grenfell Tower with flammable cladding shunned a safer version to save money, says judge US company Arconic supplied polyethylene panels through company in France Survivors file lawsuit in US because company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania In court papers they accuse firm of putting lives at risk by supplying the product … Read more
Scotland Yard will ‘assess whether crime has been committed’ after project manager on Grenfell Tower refurbishment admitted to ‘binning’ her notebooks a YEAR after blaze Claire Williams said she got rid of her records when she left her job in May 2018 She claims there was ‘nothing underhand about it’ and she was just ‘clearing’ … Read more
Project manager working on Grenfell Tower refurbishment ‘binned’ her notebooks relating to the revamp a YEAR after blaze that killed 72 people, public inquiry hears Claire Williams worked for the Grenfell’s Tenant Management Organisation She left her job at the company a year after the fire which killed 72 residents Public inquiry into blaze heard … Read more
When Amie Lewis and Alex Timms found out they were expecting their first baby, they decided it was time to put their one-bedroom flat on the market. Things moved quickly and the couple had accepted an offer on the apartment in Hackney, East London, within a week. They had also agreed a deal on a … Read more
‘Desperation’ led ‘completely trapped’ Grenfell Tower residents to wrongly believe they would be rescued by helicopter as they begged 999 operators to airlift them from blazing building Helicopters sent by the National Police Air Service weren’t equipped for rescue Report into the tragedy found residents weren’t told that they would be rescued Nabil Choucair claims … Read more
Tower block timebomb fears as it emerges two in three STILL don’t have safer cladding… more than three years after Grenfell inferno Government pledged safe cladding alternatives after 2017 Grenfell Tower tragedy Alternatives to dangerous cladding would be provided on multi-storey buildings by June Little over a third of high-rises with similar cladding have had … Read more