Released in September 2024, the Grenfell Inquiry’s final report said the fire was the culmination of “decades of failure”. All 72 deaths were avoidable, Sir Martin Moore-Bick’s report said, with the ...

But officials will not say if these will be applied retrospectively. The failures which led to the Grenfell fire happened in the years before its refurbishment in 2016. The government has backed a ...

It started with a fridge fire, but within minutes, Grenfell Tower was an unstoppable inferno. How did this tragedy unfold?

Angela Rayner, housing secretary, said the investigation found “serial incompetence and negligence, complacency and inaction, and blatant dishonesty and greed” A previous inquiry into Grenfell ...

With the cladding crisis continuing to escalate eight years after the Grenfell Tower fire exposed safety flaws, MPs have called for product manufacturers to be forced to contribute to the rising costs ...

A contractor involved in the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower before the 2017 fire is mounting a legal challenge to a ban by Kensington and Chelsea Council (RBKC). It comes after RBKC extended a ...

The UK set out a raft of reforms designed to improve building safety, as it aims to clamp down on failures that contributed to the Grenfell Tower fire. The government is planning tougher rules on ...

A survivor of the Grenfell Tower fire has said she is in ‘utter disbelief’ after discovering a contractor banned by Kensington and Chelsea Council (RBKC) is appealing the decision through the ...

A fire investigation dog who attended the Grenfell Tower fire during his 12 years of service with the London Fire Brigade (LFB) has retired. Sherlock, a working cocker spaniel born in 2012 ...

Cladding and insulation firms are among those set to be investigated, Housing Secretary Angela Rayner said, as she announced all recommendations of a public inquiry into the fire will be met. "The ...