Grenfell fire: Five years on, are London blocks safer and how many still have flammable cladding?

The Grenfell Memorial Wall in the grounds of Kensington Aldridge Academy (Jonathan Brady/PA)

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Five years ago this week, 72 people died in a catastrophic fire at Grenfell Tower in west London — one of the UK’s worst modern disasters.

In the wake of the 2017 tragedy, it emerged that the type of cladding which fuelled the fire’s spread had been used on other tower blocks across the UK.