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But campaigners say its woefully inadequate as sarah corker‘s been finding out. the government has been delaying, its been procrastinating. they are hoping that another disastrous fire does not break out in one of these blocks. three years ago, ritu found out her tower block in south—east london has the same flammable cladding as grenfell tower. the government fund for cladding repairs has been plagued with delays. ritus block was the first to have its application accepted but so far they ha...

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Contentious one. he toured a settle m e nt contentious one. he toured a settlement winery. here, they serve up settlement winery. here, they serve up vintage pompeo. some vines grow on palestinian owned land, but the us now disputes international law, which rejects settlement building. for a long time, the state department took the wrong view of settlements. it took a view that we did not recognise the history of this special place, and instead now today, the united states department of defence ...

Shaimaa khalil, bbc news, sydney. campaigners say theyre extremely disappointed after a meeting with the housing secretary robertjenrick about how to pay for flammable cladding to be removed from tower blocks in the wake of the grenfell tower fire. the government set up a £1.6 billion fund to help remove dangerous cladding. but critics say its woefully inadequate, as sarah corker reports. the government has been delaying. we are hoping that another disastrous fire does not break out in one of t...

Brief period of her life. the circumstances around it are very, very controversial. the bbc has pledged an investigation. prince william has said, extraordinarily, he is watching and waiting. mike pompeo has become the first us secretary of state to visit a jewish settlement in the occupied west bank. the trip comes a year after mr pompeo said the settlements did not contradict international law, reversing a long—held us position. the declaration outraged palestinians, who oppose settlements o...

Basis, its horrendous. while the government has made good progress with most social housing work completed, its a different picture for private blocks. there are more than 200 private tower blocks over 18 metres in height with grenfell style acm cladding. repairs have not started on 75 of those buildings. of the 83 towers where work has begun, only four have had the cladding removed. but this acm cladding is only part of the problem. i live on the eighth floor in an unsafe apartment. here in man...

London has the same flammable cladding as grenfell tower. the government fund for cladding repairs has been plagued with delays. ritus block was the first to have its application accepted but so far they have received just £50,000 and their estimated repair bill is more than £2 million, while other dangerous buildings may get nothing at all. it is basically a lottery of, for me, life and death because we are told that our buildings are as combustible as petrol and to think that for something t...

Scotlands first minster, nicola sturgeon, says she hopes there will be a uk—wide agreement on easing covid restrictions at christmas. it comes as a survey for the bbc suggests scots have considerably more confidence in the scottish governments handling of the pandemic than they have in the uk governments response, even though scotland has suffered only a slightly lower death rate than england. coronavirus also appears to be having an impact on voters views on whether scotland should be an inde...

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