Furious Dagenham residents left homeless after a fire tore through their tower block have hit out at authorities' 'utter failure' to keep them safe after they were 'fully aware of the fire safety issues'.
29/08/2024
The Deputy Prime Minister has admitted that progress to remove unsafe cladding after the 2017 Grenfell Tower Fire has been “going far too slowly”.
27/08/2024
This caller shared his fury at witnessing the Grenfell tower fire from his home.
29/01/2023
Michael Gove has admitted the Government must shoulder responsibility for the "faulty and ambiguous" guidance he says was exploited and led to the Grenfell tower fire.
29/01/2023
Firefighters who bravely battled the blaze at Grenfell Tower have been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
13/01/2023
A property manager who submitted fake building cladding safety forms has been given a suspended sentence.
28/09/2022
A man has been charged with fraud after dozens of cladding safety forms were signed off by an unauthorised person, Merseyside Police has said.
21/06/2022
There are still at least 9,793 tower blocks in England that are 'unsafe' due to dangerous cladding and other associated fire risks, according to government figures obtained exclusively by LBC.
10/06/2022
Michael Gove was unable to put a figure on the number of tower blocks that still have dangerous cladding when challenged on LBC this morning.
09/06/2022
None of the recommendations from the first phase of the Grenfell inquiry have been completed by the Government, Sadiq Khan has warned.
21/03/2022
Thousands of people are living in dark homes shrouded in plastic, as work begins to fix the cladding on the outside of their buildings.
04/02/2022
Rachael Loftus bought her flat in Leeds for £89,000.
02/02/2022
Grenfell Tower survivors have criticised "shocking" plans to build a new residential skyscraper with only one staircase a few hundred metres from the site of the 2017 fire.
20/01/2022
Leaseholders must not "shoulder the burden" of paying to fix dangerous cladding on blocks of flats, Michael Gove said today.
10/01/2022
This Shelagh Fogarty caller speaks of facing bankruptcy amid the cladding crisis and tells LBC he's "fighting it every single day on credit cards".
10/01/2022
