Remember Grenfell?

Almost 60,000 people are still living in tower blocks covered in the highly flammable material that was used on Grenfell Tower, two years on from the blaze at the west London block, new figures have revealed.

There are 24,800 homes in high-rise blocks that are still covered in Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding that is "unlikely to meet building regulations", ministers admitted. 

The ACM panels were widely blamed as one cause of the rapid spread of the fire at Grenfell, which killed 72 people, and have since been banned by the government. Ministers have been criticised over the pace at which the material is being removed from the buildings, with more than eight in ten yet to have the cladding taken down - a figure that rises to more than nine in ten for privately-owned blocks.