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"We are coming for you" - Michael Gove's warning to firms that cut corners, sought to profiteer and mis-sold dangerous products No leaseholder living in a building higher than 11m, around four to six ...

It took just 90 minutes for fire to race up 20 storeys of the Grenfell Tower in June 2017, killing 72 people. Last month, a cigarette sparked a blaze that quickly jumped five floors of Melbourne's ...

The first batch of data to be published by the Ministry of Housing since the Grenfell Inquiry completed its work shows that 4,771 buildings have now been highlighted as having "life-critical" cladding ...