Grenfell Tower

England's former housing secretary Michael Gove has said criminal prosecutions should be brought against Grenfell Tower cladding firms. The final report of the Grenfell Inquiry, published last week, said the west London tower block was covered in combustible products because of the “syste

Scotland’s largest trade association SELECT has echoed the Grenfell Inquiry’s call for regulation and a shake-up of the construction industry and has urged the Scottish Government to “step up and act on regulation” before tragedy strikes again. The campaigning body says it ag

A chain of failures across government, organisations and the private sector led through "incompetence", "dishonesty" and "greed” all contributed to Grenfell Tower becoming a death trap and resulted in an "unedifying 'merry-go-round of buck-passing'", the final report from the Grenfell Tower In

A professor of fire and structures at the University of Edinburgh has published a new report which details the flaws with the government’s former safety research and testing body that ultimately led to the death of 72 people following the Grenfell Tower fire five years ago today