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Glen Burgess is hoping that the 25th anniversary of a Workington success story will kickstart the Championship season for Town.

Hadleigh, where Celotex is based, is an affluent market town in a picturesque part of south Suffolk. It is the opposite to the England of the Grenfell estate in west London, but decisions made there are now at the centre of the inquiry.  Hadleigh, where Celotex is based, is a picturesque market town in Suffolk - Credit: Charlotte Bond Since 2012 Celotex had been owned by a French firm called Saint Gobain - a massive multinational corporation.   When it bought Celotex, Saint Gobain wanted to see a return on its investment and gave management a target of increasing profits by 15%.  In ...

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”, according to one of the test’s observers from Kingspan. The Building Research Establishment (BRE), the ...