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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

Use of Kingspan insulation on towers near Grenfell angers residents

Grenfell Tower
The Grenfell Tower fire on 14 June 2017 killed 72 people. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA

Materials made by a company implicated in the Grenfell Tower disaster have been installed on a pair of nearby council tower blocks during fire safety works, in a move met with outrage in the west London community.

Insulation made by Kingspan, the firm that provided some of the combustible foam on the tower, which went up in flames on 14 June 2017 killing 72 people, was discovered last week on the Adair and Hazelwood towers, a few hundred metres from Grenfell.

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