A decision to demolish an 18-storey tower block and rehouse its elderly residents is to be reconsidered. South Tyneside Council's Labour cabinet had unanimously voted to pull down Durham Court, in ...

Hundreds of residents in two tower blocks are facing imminent homelessness after both buildings were condemned by the fire service as being unsafe. Katie Barnfield. North of England correspondent ...

Since its unveiling in 1962, a Huyton tower block has experienced a storied and troubled history. In many ways, Knowsley Heights reflects the fate of so many other high-rise developments which ...

Two tower blocks on Merseyside are costing a council £3,000 per day to keep them safe, a senior local authority official has said. Beech Rise and Willow Rise in Kirkby, which have hundreds of ...

Those living in the top floors of the 26-storey Balfron Tower, east London, have been periodically stuck in their flats as the lifts keep breaking down.

A man scaled a radio tower on American University’s campus and was engaged in a standoff with D.C. police that surpassed 24 hours on Wednesday. The tower supports the main broadcast antennas for WAMU ...

Date set for Coventry tower blocks with only one resident left to be demolished. The buildings have been described as being in 'poor condition' and 'not fit for purpose' coventrytelegraph.

The disrepair in this block is everywhere you look. It has now been deemed so unsafe by Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service that they are days away from serving a rare prohibition notice on this tower ...

Residents in four East Sussex tower blocks that are due to be demolished have voiced concerns over where they will be rehomed. Southern Housing plans to redevelop Four Courts in Stonehouse Drive ...

The Hickman Avenue tower will comprise 87 homes, 35 of which will be ‘affordable’ housing aimed at poorer buyers. It will be split into two parts: an eight-storey block connected to a six ...

A “happy” and “sassy” girl died after falling from the sixth-floor of a Portsmouth tower block in a “desperately tragic accident”, an inquest heard.

A cat has been rescued from a concrete ledge on the eighth floor of a tower block. The cat had somehow become perilously positioned on the exterior wall of the Hanley tower block - with no way of ...