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Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey will pay out £125 million to replace cladding and improve fire safety on all blocks built in the last 20 years in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.  The money is set to be placed in a fund in order to provide certainty for customers and leaseholders and to avoid them bearing the cost of investment to ensure their buildings are safe, the company said. It comes just weeks after ministers set aside £3.5 billion in funding to help repair or replace cladding more...

news Grenfell cladding email urged confidential tests © PA Media A technical manager at the maker of the Grenfell Tower cladding told colleagues poor fire test results on the product needed to be kept "very confidential". The request, in capital letters, was in an email sent in 2010 and produced at the public inquiry into the 2017 fire. It was sent by French national Claude Wehrle, an Arconic manager who refused to come to the UK to give evidence. A sales director, Guy Scheidecker, responded ...

The fire inquiry is also told lower UK safety rules "encouraged" sales of more flammable material.

How they built Grenfell Away from the media spotlight, the Grenfell Tower inquiry is quietly disentangling a web of corporate spin and scandal. In December 2007, an Irish building materials company called Kingspan tested the fire safety of one of its insulation materials, Kooltherm K15. It was tested on a rig mocked up like a building, to mimic how the product might be used in real life, with aluminium cladding panels on a steel frame six metres tall. It created a “raging inferno”, accor...