Reconstituted stone cladding has given a 100-year-old office block a new lease of life.

The government has decided to step in to fund the replacement of dangerous flammable cladding on privately owned buildings.

The government has confirmed that it will specifically ban the use of combustible materials on external walls of high-rise residential buildings.

New research on the smoke toxicity of building cladding has been presented to government for it to consider the role that toxicity should play in product approvals before making its final decision on the acceptability of combustible building materials.

Lendlease faces being blacklisted from government contracts unless it replaces flammable cladding that it installed on Manchester tower blocks.

Contractors are being left exposed by difficulties getting professional indemnity insurance in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire. Solicitor Anjon Mallik, partner at law firm Gordons, explains.