A senior fire engineer told the new grenfell tower disaster inquiry that she did not think overcladding the tower block would lead to any problems during the refurbishing of the tower in 2012. The ...

More than 100 buildings in the UK have failed fire-safety tests due to the external cladding used on them. Some 111 high-rise blocks use a combination of material which failed the second of six new ...

The cladding on Grenfell Tower was used on other buildings hit by fires around the world, the BBC has learned. The exterior cladding, added in 2015, had a polyethylene - or plastic - core instead of ...