Cladding similar to that used on Grenfell Tower is lethal and must be fixed “as soon as possible”, government fire tests have found. Long-awaited tests carried out on High Pressure Laminate (HPL) ...

The government has been accused of a “futile desperation to contain the cladding scandal” as it prepares to combine high-pressure laminate (HPL) material with non-combustible insulation in its ...

More people could be living in “potential death traps” than previously thought after it was revealed a second type of cladding should be removed from towerblocks two years after the Grenfell disaster.

Thousands of people are at risk of a Grenfell-style fire because of a “flawed” test that stated a type of cladding covering hundreds of tower blocks is safe, the government has been told. Fire safety ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A widely used cladding, known as high-pressure laminate, is at least as flammable as the type targeted by a UK ...