BBCNEWS BBC News June 22, 2017
Welcome to bbc news. Safety inspectors are carrying out urgent checks on hundreds of high rise buildings after the fire at Grenfell Tower in west london. The government estimates that around 600 buildings in england are covered in some sort of cladding. So far its been disclosed that 11 residential blocks have been fitted with the kind of cladding that can catch fire. 79 people are presumed to have died in the Grenfell Tower disaster. Our home editor mark easton reports. The consequences of the Grenfell Tower tragedy are now spreading across the country. Hundreds of samples of cladding, simila...