A high-pressure laminate (HPL) cladding system believed to be in use on thousands of buildings has dramatically failed a safety test, with flames ripping through a nine metre test rig in under eight ...

Thousands of people are at risk of a Grenfell-style fire because of a “flawed” test that stated a type of cladding covering hundreds of tower blocks is safe, the government has been told. Fire safety ...

A shock report has revealed that almost 400 buildings in Scotland, including tower blocks, have a potentially deadly type of cladding. Concerns about cladding have been prompted by the ­Grenfell Tower ...