The following year, Dudley Wood destroyed his Porsche 962 in practice — crashing so hard that he cracked its engine block. He survived. As did John Nielsen, who flipped his Sauber-Mercedes at 220mph ...

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.

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 ...

RESIDENTS living in eight London tower blocks – once branded “unsafe” by Sir Keir Starmer – have accused their Labour-run council of ignoring life-threatening fire risks. Eight years on… ...

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 ...

Atwater’s, the first restaurant in the space now occupied by the Portland City Grill, offered boneless ducklings and assorted ...

The tower block blaze was reported during the early hours and by the time firefighters arrived, the entirety of one external wall was alight. Flames could be seen billowing from windows on every ...

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.

Not to mention the many well-built, well-intentioned blocks that have succumbed to neglect, decay and ghettoisation, and the newer ones being thrown up by corner-cutting developers. To top it off, the ...

There are water stains across the carpet and rotten wood on the doors. It has now been deemed so unsafe by Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service that they are days away from serving a rare prohibition ...