British authorities announced Thursday tests are being conducted on hundreds of tower blocks to determine if they have the same type of flammable cladding as used in Grenfell Tower. The tests come a ...

TO THEIR FIRST residents, the tower blocks British councils built in the 1950s and 1960s were symbols of post-war aspiration, homes that seemed to offer in all senses the chance to go up in the world.

The evacuation of a tower block in Bristol, after surveys found structural concerns, drew fresh attention to the construction of Britain’s public housing high-rises and possible safety issues. By ...

12 people have died and at least 74 more have been injured after a massive fire ravaged a block of flats in central London. "I have never ever seen anything of this scale," said London Fire Brigade ...

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