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BOSSES at firms which fitted out the doomed block earn six-figure sums and live in mansions. The string of companies behind the refurb of the 24-storey Grenfell Tower paid out huge sums to executives.

Details have emerged of how a fully costed plan to fit Grenfell Tower with fire-resistant cladding was dropped amid pressure from the local council to save money Cladding company D+B Facades, which ...

Proposals to fit grenfell tower with fire-resistant cladding were dropped by the local council in a bid to cut costs just four years before the blaze which killed 71 people. Conservative Kensington ...

GRENFELL Tower had MORE insulated cladding installed on the outside of the building than was needed to avoid having to repeat the job. A planning report shows the developers, hired by the Royal ...

Authorities may need to ban the cladding used on the outside of Grenfell Tower, experts have said. The cladding – metal panels that were stuck on the outside of the building to help insulate and ...

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Seven years after the Grenfell Tower blaze in London that killed 72 people, including two Australians, an inquiry has highlighted a chain of failures that led to the disaster and laid the heaviest ...