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 ...

British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday that initial tests on other high-rise buildings after the London fire tragedy have shown that the cladding was combustible. May, made this known ...

Wooden cladding and decking on a roof terrace garden could be a fire risk at a high rise block of flats in Swindon. The agent for Wellington House, a seven-storey block of flats in Wellington Street, ...

Flammable cladding and parts of balconies on a block of flats will be removed if a planning application is approved. Developers want to remove the materials on Grand Union House in Stoke Road, Slough, ...

A tower block that has had "repeated lift breakdowns" is covered in unsafe, flammable cladding, developers have confirmed. The 15-storey Lexington Apartments building in Slough, Berkshire, is about ...

An Oldham tower block is having its exterior wall insulation replaced as part of an upgrade of the borough’s high rises. Montgomery House in Hollinwood which is owned by First Choice Homes housing ...

Workers have been pictured removing cladding from tower blocks today after testing showed they were potentially flammable, similar to the covering used on Grenfell Tower. Testing is still being ...