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EXCLUSIVE: Six years on from Grenfell, people still dont know when buildings will be made safe.

Many thanks, hugh pym, our health editor. almost all of britains major developers, including britains biggest house—builder barratt, have agreed to sign contracts to remove flammable cladding from tower blocks and to fix other building defects discovered in the wake of the fire at grenfell tower in west london. the housing secretary michael gove had threatened them with being banned from building if they dont sign up. but developers and cladding campaign groups claim the legal contracts will o...

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Where you dont think about it or it doesnt impact you in some way, from costs, the fact we cant move, we cant get on with our lives. we would love to sell this apartment, move out of town, get a house. but we are just trapped, mentally, financially, physically, trapped in this apartment until, hopefully, eventually, we can hopefully sell it. there are also thousands of buildings notjudged as high—rise, but which could still have safety risks. a new tax was brought in this year to pay for work ...

Its that little boy who didnt want to hear, or didnt want to feel pain. as they rose for recess, watching intently, his ex—wife. well hear amber heards version of events in the days to come. david sillitoe, bbc news, fairfax, virginia. thereve been protests outside parliament today over the cladding crisis as campaigners urged the government to protect all leaseholders from the costs of replacing flammable cladding. today mps were debating the key legislation to protect hundreds of thousands o...

He will have to face several times those problems, so i think bottom line, he will have to get vaccine. but for this time, for australia, he got the visa, and he flew in with all the best intention and having done all the works he should have done beforehand. todays events have moved and changed at a dizzying speed, and its still unclear whether the government will seek to deport novak djokovic. but after his release, the tennis star said hes focused on competing here in the australian open. its...

Good morning, welcome to breakfast with dan walker and nina warhurst. our headlines today. novak djokovic wins his appeal against deportation from australia, and will be released from immigration detention. from the courts to the court, his attention now turns to the australian open. djokovic will now be able to defend his title in melbourne as he tries to claim that record 21st grand slam. at least 19 people, including 9 children, die in a fire at an apartment block in new york city. the govern...

Theres been a weekly drop of almost 10% in covid hospital admissions. the i says that the prime minister is planning to announce a "living with covid plan" by march — which could include winding down testing and the scrapping of free lateral flow tests. another of those measures is reported in the telegraph, reducing the covid isolation period from seven to five days — a measure which the chancellor supports. the mail has a warning from senior tory mps to borisjohnson that he must tackle the...

There are still more than 1,000 high rise tower blocks across britain, with flammable cladding. new government figures show that 40% of the buildings that have exactly the same type as that found on grenfell tower, have still to be made safe. and there many hundreds more with other types of dangerous cladding that also need to be fixed. the communities secretary, michael gove, has been holding talks with some of britains biggest developers, urging them to pay billions to help leaseholders. sarah...

I wouldnt recommend anybody to go into shared ownership. housing experts say the cladding crisis has exposed the flaws in the shared ownership model and want it reformed. i think the scheme does have a sort of fundamental unfairness. there are potential liabilities which are so great that people are potentially going to go bankrupt or lose their homes. any scheme which purports to be an affordable housing and which can leave people in that situation is not doing itsjob. emmas housing association...