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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...

A million plus people are now in lockdown in yuzhou, the latest proof that china is very committed to its zero—covid strategy. translation: it doesnt bother me to do a covid test at midnight. its for our own safety. 300 miles away and two weeks ahead of yuzhou is xian, a city famed for its terracotta warriors, where 13 million people have now been locked down since before christmas. what started out a fortnight ago with the late—night army of officials welding gates shut, has led to this. so...

Is doing in 2022. lets look at some of the other stories making headlines today. the housing secretary, michael gove, has met developers today and urged them to pay more for work to remove dangerous cladding from blocks of flats and to rectify building safety issues. and will cost developers billions of pounds. almost 5 years after the tragedy, 40% of tall tower blocks with flammable grenfell style cladding have yet to be made safe — despite money from the governments £5 billion building safe...

If the sky is clear for any length of time that could allow temperatures to drop low enough for a touch of frost and they could be fog patches are ran by morning as well. also there will be outbreaks of rain pushing on across the north—west of scotland. this band of rain will sink a little further southwards during the day, very weak affair and for most of us it is a driver cloudy day. as parts of sunshine north wales, the midlands and some parts of northern ireland and some parts of northern ...

Im stuck with something that potentially might ruin me. its hard to even think about it all because its just too much, too heartbreaking. concerns over building safety were triggered by the grenfell tower fire in 2017. 72 people died. an inquiry found the type of cladding used, known as acm, was the primary cause of the fires rapid spread. something wasnt right and i think you knew too. since then, the cladding crisis has only escalated. there have been a wave of demonstrations. applause this is...

20, 30 years in the making? i think it goes back into the �*705 and the �*80s, actually in terms of the whole deregulation bandwagon. we were having meetings with government in 2009, 2010 with our concerns about the quality issues on on building sites. so its been there for a very long time. rewind to 1984. tower blocks hundreds of feet high are being _ tower blocks hundreds of feet high are being recovered in new materials. this is a bbc documentary called the great british housing disaster...

Police will meet a conservative mp whos accused downing street of trying to "blackmail" politicians whove tried to oust borisjohnson. the first shipment of american military aid to ukraine arrives there — after talks over russias troop build—up on the border. a week after tonga was devastated by a volcanic eruption and tsunami, humanitarian aid begins to reach the tens of thousands of people affected. the actor arnold schwarzenegger is involved in a multi—vehicle crash in los angeles — o...

The government has set aside billions to remove cladding. figures analysed by the bbc show that 60% of tower blocks with grenfell—style acm cladding have had work fully completed. its lower for private—sector blocks — less than half have been finished and signed off as safe. for other types of dangerous materials — known as non—acm cladding — progress has been slower. nearly 1,000 blocks have been approved for funding, but so far, just 18 have been completed. thats less than 2%. the ...

72 people died. an inquiry found the type of cladding used, known as acm, was the primary cause of the fires rapid spread. something wasnt right and i think you knew too. since then, the cladding crisis has only escalated. there have been a wave of demonstrations. this is a scandal that has been 30 years in the making. safety checks on other tower blocks after the grenfell tower fire found notjust problems with cladding, but many other fire safety defects too. so, flammable balconies, missing fi...

All because its just too much, too heartbreaking. concerns over building safety were triggered by the grenfell tower fire in 2017. 72 people died. an inquiry found the type of cladding used, known as acm, was the primary cause of the fires rapid spread. something wasnt right and i think you knew too. since then, the cladding crisis has only escalated. there have been a wave of demonstrations. this is a scandal that has been 30 years in the making. safety checks on other tower blocks after the gr...