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THE exclusion of existing buildings from a new Tory ban on the type of cladding used on Grenfell is “disgraceful,” campaigners charged today.
Justice4Grenfell told the Morning Star that thousands of residents trapped in unsafe housing would still be “living in fear” as the guidance — announced yesterday — applies only to new builds.
Nearly five years on from the blaze in the west London tower block, metal composite material panels with unmodified polyethylene core are now banned on all new buildings of any height in England.
Emergency phone alerts could help Britain respond to rising wildfire risk, but Australia’s experience suggests they work best as part of a broader strategy, write ELLIOT CONVERY-FISHER and KATE PARKINS
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
