A blaze in a tower block is terrible, terrible news.
|
|
A tower block caught fire and collapsed in São Paulo.
|
|
In Guangzhou, the provincial capital, tower-block windows were blown out.
|
|
Six victims of the tower block fire have been provisionally identified.
|
|
At least 12 are dead as blaze rips through west London tower block.
|
|
That was before we awoke to see a tower block engulfed in flames.
|
|
That tower block was full of asylum seekers, migrants, poor, working-class, black people.
|
|
Anyone who has actually lived in a tower block or similar concrete monstrosity can probably relate.
|
|
"High-Rise", his latest film, is a dystopian tale of class warfare in a tower block.
|
|
The Grenfell Tower block in north Kensington contains around 120 homes and houses several hundred people.
|
|
He looks out the window, up at the grey Soviet-era tower block we're idling outside.
|
|
More than 250 firefighters and 40 fire engines were sent to the tower block in central London.
|
|
How we'd say it in Britain:"My flat is on the seventh floor of a tower block."
|
|
So we've just watched a tower block in London kill 79 people, and that's a very conservative estimate.
|
|
Tetra Pak recycling is like dropping an anvil from a 60-story tower block to hit a nail.
|
|
In April, a man from London survived after he was shot in the stomach underneath a tower block.
|
|
"Shocked at the devastation at Grenfell Tower block where my old amateur club Dale Youth is," DeGale tweeted.
|
|
The NME's office was situated on the 26th floor of an ugly tower block on London's South Bank.
|
|
The Ronan Point disaster in 1968, when a 22-storey tower block collapsed, led to more stringent construction regulations.
|
|
Beritan and her brother now live in a rented apartment in a tower block on the outskirts of town.
|
|
London police said 79 people were dead or missing presumed dead after a devastating tower block blaze last week.
|
|
"Kaleidoscope," a glum British tower-block drama, would seem to possess all the elements of a potent psychological thriller.
|
|
But the stylish blue and white tower block is in fact a facade stuck on to a much shabbier building.
|
|
One of the largest Kurdistan flags in Irbil can be found draped over a large, hollowed-out luxury tower block.
|
|
In a quiet suburb of Belgrade, a small European Union flag flutters from the seventh floor of a concrete tower block.
|
|
Checking in on my own London friends, Facebook's Safety Check informs me that three are "safe" from the tower block fire.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - London police said 79 people were dead or missing presumed dead after a devastating tower block blaze last week.
|
|
The exercise, which is reportedly Europe's largest, simulates a scenario based around a big tower block collapsing onto Waterloo tube station.
|
|
A Soviet mosaic adorns a tower block built in the late 1960s on Prospekt Peremohy, in Shuliavka, Shevchenkivskyi District, Kiev, Ukraine.
|
|
It's now been over 214 hours since a horrendous fire ripped through a 22017-story highrise tower block in West London.
|
|
It is understood that several hundred people had been asleep in the tower block when the fire spread throughout the building.
|
|
"Belgrade apartment" was for a time a kind of international shorthand for a spacious, well-appointed flat in a tower block.
|
|
In London, at least 80 people were killed when a fire gutted the 24-story Grenfell Tower block on June 14.
|
|
Flames engulfed the high-rise Grenfell Tower block of apartments in the north Kensington area after taking hold around 1 a.m.
|
|
The 24-story London tower block turned into a death trap because of cheap, flammable material and other shortcomings, advocates say.
|
|
Ubah Yusuf said she and her neighbors, who lived close to Grenfell, would ask their building manager about their own tower block.
|
|
Talks have been delayed, due to events such as the fire which engulfed a tower block in London earlier in the week.
|
|
She is also trying to contain outrage at home over a London tower block fire which left at least 30 people dead.
|
|
Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said 44 buildings had collapsed, including a factory, a supermarket, and a six-storey tower block.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - British police said that 58 people were now assumed to have died in this week's blaze at a London tower block.
|
|
Planned cuts of 3 billion pounds in funding for local authorities may be revisited after the deadly fire in a London tower block.
|
|
London police said they expected the death toll from the tower block fire to rise as emergency services continued to search the building.
|
|
Two weeks ago a tower block run by a council on the other side of the capital caught fire, killing at least 2001 people.
|
|
Answering even the simplest of these questions will be surprisingly difficult: many people living in the tower block were recent immigrants or even refugees.
|
|
She has also been criticized for her response to a fire in a London tower block last Wednesday which killed at least 79 people.
|
|
I live in Hawaii half the year, and there, there's always a new building, a new road, a new business, a new tower block.
|
|
"In the world's fifth-largest economy, this is appalling," added Mr. Mekonen, a resident of the Bray tower block who is originally from Ethiopia.
|
|
In addition, days after the snap election in June 2017, a fire engulfed the Grenfell Tower block in London, killing more than 70 people.
|
|
It is possible that the destruction of the tower block on Tuesday night could come to symbolise the end of an era in British politics.
|
|
But I still remember what it was like to look out onto a grey, angled concrete world from the seventeenth floor of a tower block.
|
|
Officials are conducting tests on some 600 high-rise buildings across England after fire ravaged the Grenfell tower block in west London on June 14.
|
|
London Fire Brigade reported over 200 firefighters tackled the flames through the night, with 40 fire engines also sent to the north Kensington tower block.
|
|
Among the properties under its management is Adair Tower, a 14-story tower block that was set aflame in October 2015 in an arson attack.
|
|
His family resides here with more than 10 other residents of the tower block while the local council government works to rehouse the hundreds left homeless.
|
|
London police said at least 30 people have died as a result of the massive tower block fire, with the death toll set to increase further.
|
|
"We chose the derelict tower block to contrast their eccentricities and followed them on a journey to 'the last place on earth left open,'" Rimmer continues.
|
|
The police have said that there are reasonable grounds to suspect that the local council and the organization that managed the tower block had committed corporate manslaughter.
|
|
There was the devastating Grenfell Tower block fire in London that incinerated at least 58 in the subsidized-housing project, which was home to many Muslim immigrants.
|
|
Greg Transell, an office manager in Sydney's north, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that strong winds caused widespread disruption to the tower block office where he works.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - The death toll from the London tower block fire has risen to 17 and the figure is expected to rise further, police said on Thursday.
|
|
Activists attending packed masterclasses in a grey Soviet-era Moscow tower-block learn how to monitor polling stations and hear warnings that "everyone" will lie to them.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May ordered a full public inquiry into the London tower block fire that killed at least 17 people early on Wednesday morning.
|
|
This article originally appeared on VICE UK.I remember getting fucked on the balcony of a seven-story south London tower block at 7 AM on a Monday morning.
|
|
Six months ago he met a gang of dealers from London while smoking heroin at a friend's flat on the top floor of a tower block in Southend.
|
|
HONOLULU (Reuters) - Flames ripped through three floors of a Honolulu tower block, killing three people including a mother and her adult son on Friday, officials and media said.
|
|
"The whole exercise has been a massive knee-jerk overreaction," he said, standing outside the tower block, as some residents rushed in and out to remove their belongings.
|
|
Not sending a high ladder was standard procedure for the first response to a fire in a tower block, according to a spokeswoman for the London Fire Brigade.
|
|
Then an estate, a tower block, angled to better represent the intricate architecture that comes into view, contrasting yet corresponding with the stately aesthetic of the video's introduction.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - At least 12 people died in the huge fire that engulfed a London tower block on Wednesday and the toll is likely to rise further, police said.
|
|
I lived in a tower block there from the age of seven, after two years with my mom, who had moved to Handsworth, a very black and Asian area.
|
|
The following year, the ridiculously popular London Underground was erected—a six-story, semi-destroyed London tower block with a derailed Northern tube line train smashing right into it.
|
|
"All we want is to not be bullied out of the community where we live," said Beverley Robinson, who has lived in her tower block apartment for 21960 years.
|
|
Many residents of the tower block are still unaccounted for, and the police have said that because of the intensity of the fire, some remains may never be identified.
|
|
In September, footage emerged of Abu Kifah overcome with emotion after he dug a 1-month-old girl out from the fourth-floor wreckage of a tower block in Aleppo.
|
|
Mixers and speakers in kitchen sinks, aerials on tower block rooftops, bargain-basement decks with pennies taped to the needles slowly but surely destroying one-way dubplates and white labels.
|
|
With a team of about 13 full-time staff in a tower block across the River Thames from Parliament, Matthew Elliott is plotting what he describes as a revolution: Brexit.
|
|
The local authority, which owns the tower block where families rent their homes, says it is doing all it can to support the victims and to help the relief operation.
|
|
An action group at the west London tower block had repeatedly warned of a fire risk and suggested a similar incident was narrowly avoided after a power surge in 2013.
|
|
Certainly, in south London, a pirate station is usually a bloke up a tower block with a transmitter playing bad music at 3 AM. At least, that's my childhood memory.
|
|
The British government, which ordered a series of tests to establish which types of cladding panels met fire safety rules, said those on the London tower block did not comply.
|
|
I mean, look at what happened at Grenfell [the tower block in London that recently caught fire]—I live around there now and there are things that need to be said.
|
|
At least 12 people are dead and more than 60 people were injured in a huge fire that engulfed a residential apartment building, or tower block, in West London Tuesday night.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - Singer Adele was among people who gathered on Wednesday night close to a London tower block that was destroyed in a catastrophic fire, according to posts on social media.
|
|
LONDON, June 16 (Reuters) - Some people left a local town hall on Friday after storming the building in protest at a deadly London tower block fire, Reuters reporters at the scene said.
|
|
Last month Southwark Council pleaded guilty for failing to address fire risks before a blaze in 2009 that killed six people at a 14-storey tower block less than a mile away.
|
|
At least 79 people died when a fire that started in a fridge freezer engulfed the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block on June 14, trapping many inside their apartments as they slept.
|
|
London's Fire Brigade Commissioner told reporters that while the building appeared to be safe for crews to work in, a structural engineer is continuing to monitor the safety of the tower block.
|
|
One of the residents trapped inside the 24-story residential tower block in west London while a fire ripped through it early Wednesday morning shared a live video of the horror on Facebook.
|
|
The fire broke out in a fridge freezer but spread rapidly, engulfing the entire tower block and police said aluminum tiles and insulation which made up exterior cladding had failed fire safety tests.
|
|
It remains unclear why it would be valuable to mimic the shape of a tree in a housing proposal, specifically this housing proposal — except simply to break the idea of the tower block.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - More than 70 people are being treated in hospital after a huge fire at a London tower block on Wednesday, with 20 of them requiring critical care, London Ambulance Service said.
|
|
Hiddleston's dog-roaster character turns out to have been an ambitious 20th century doctor named Robert Laing, a social climber who just landed an apartment in an exclusive and very chic new tower block.
|
|
At least 30 people died after a blaze took hold in the early hours of Wednesday and engulfed the tower block in west London which housed some 600 residents in more than 120 apartments.
|
|
In Mwamba's office, on the 17th floor of a rundown tower block, the twilight sun is exposing dust on a framed photograph behind his desk of the suited "ambassador" posing before the Guangzhou skyline.
|
|
The west London tower block inferno sent shockwaves around Britain, leading to a public inquiry - which is ongoing - and a separate police investigation that could result in criminal charges, while Britons debate community cohesion.
|
|
A campaign group seeking justice for the victims of a tower block blaze in London have taken a lead from Hollywood, wheeling three accusatory billboards through the British capital to demand accountability for the disaster.
|
|
More than 200 firefighters, backed up by 40 fire engines, fought for hours to try to bring the Grenfell Tower block blaze - one of the most treacherous seen in London for a generation - under control.
|
|
The dynamic 41-year-old MP grew up in a tough Plattenbau, or communist-era tower block, but says he was made by the local school: "That's social democracy," he tells a crowd in Weimar.
|
|
But a number of companies, including IBM, are now working on stacking chips on top of each other, like flats in a tower block, to allow designers to pack more transistors into a given area.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth visited residents, volunteers and emergency services at a center helping those affected by London's tower block fire on Friday, with grandson Prince William promising to return to hear residents' concerns.
|
|
British officials are conducting tests on some 600 high-rise buildings across England after fire ravaged the Grenfell tower block in west London on June 14, prompting public anger over the Conservative government's budget cuts.
|
|
LONDON, June 23 (Reuters) - Whirlpool on Friday said it was working with British authorities investigating a deadly blaze in a London tower block after police said one of its Hotpoint fridge freezers sparked the fire.
|
|
A huge fire ripped through a tower block in West London early Wednesday morning, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens more—as Mayor Sadiq Khan warned "a lot of people" are still unaccounted for.
|
|
The "powerful identities" of the capital and the northern English city had shone through after militant attacks as well as a devastating fire that destroyed the residential tower block Grenfell Tower in London, the Queen said.
|
|
Although the tower block was located in one of the wealthiest areas of Britain, it housed many poorer people, some from ethnic minorities, and raised difficult questions about social housing, building regulations and fire safety rules.
|
|
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Fierce clashes resumed on Monday at a tower block complex in southwest Benghazi where forces loyal to Libya's eastern government have been battling for weeks to dislodge rival fighters, a security official said.
|
|
British Prime Minister Theresa May's government sought on Saturday to quell anger over a deadly tower block fire by pledging to support the victims of the blaze after protesters jeered her when she visited local residents.
|
|
A huge fire ripped through a tower block in West London early Wednesday morning, killing at least 212.75 people and injuring dozens more — as Mayor Sadiq Khan warned "a lot of people" are still unaccounted for.
|
|
A huge fire ripped through a tower block in West London early Wednesday morning, killing at least 17 people and injuring dozens more — as Mayor Sadiq Khan warned "a lot of people" are still unaccounted for.
|
|
In the 2018 video work "La Tour Robespierre (The Robespierre Tower)," the camera slowly and shakily rises up a concrete tower block, story by story, revealing the minute differences of decor on an otherwise monolithic facade.
|
|
Mrs May got the narrative off to a dismal start from the Conservatives' point of view when she visited the smouldering tower-block and talked to the rescue services but didn't meet with any of the residents.
|
|
LONDON, June 16 (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth visited residents, volunteers and emergency services at a centre helping those affected by London's tower block fire on Friday, with grandson Prince William promising to return to hear residents' concerns.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Wednesday it was sending in a task force to help run the local authority struggling to cope with the aftermath of a London tower block blaze which killed at least 80 people.
|
|
"We kept saying we didn't want to live higher than the third floor or in a large tower block because of the trauma we went through," said Asma Kazmi, a mother of three who survived the fire.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - Furious survivors of the London tower block fire that killed at least 80 people booed the new leader of the local authority during chaotic scenes on Wednesday at the council's first meeting since the blaze.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - Searching a London tower block gutted in a huge fire on Wednesday might take months, a police chief said on Thursday, adding he hoped the death toll would not rise from 17 to "triple figures".
|
|
Only days after the election, the horrific spectacle of at least 80 people burned to death in a government tower block in one of the most affluent areas of West London became an unforgettable symbol of inequality.
|
|
As reports emerged Thursday that the death toll from a tower block inferno in London could reach more than 100, the U.K is asking how such a horrific disaster could have unfolded in the capital's richest borough.
|
|
The queen met locals on her way into the Westway Sports Centre which has been turned into a makeshift shelter after the blaze on Wednesday morning engulfed a 24-storey tower block and killed at least 30 people.
|
|
The queen met locals on her way into the Westway Sports Center, which has been turned into a makeshift shelter after the blaze on Wednesday morning engulfed a 24-storey tower block and killed at least 30 people.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - A railway track which lies in the shadow of a London tower block gutted by a deadly blaze this week was closed on Saturday as the fire brigade worked to clear up debris inside the building.
|
|
Four militant attacks have raised questions about her grip on national security, and the death of at least 79 people in a tower block fire has become a flashpoint for public anger at her party's record in government.
|
|
Polish-ising institutions followed when this part of Silesia became part of the young Polish republic in 1922, still evident today in the rational lines of the Silesian Parliament and the New York-style "Cloud Scraper" tower block.
|
|
The queen met locals on her way into the Westway Sports Centre, which has been turned into a makeshift shelter after the blaze on Wednesday morning engulfed a 24-storey tower block and killed at least 30 people.
|
|
Labour has also said Britain needs to spend more to prevent the kind of attacks carried out recently by Islamist militants and it has linked a fire disaster in a London tower block this week to constraints on spending.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - Since an inferno engulfed the London tower block she lived in, Sawsan Choucair has been desperately trying to find news of what happened to the other six members of her family who were living there with her.
|
|
Scarred by three deadly Islamist militant attacks and a tower block fire that killed dozens in London, Britain is also grappling with a political crisis that has left Prime Minister Theresa May weakened on the eve of Brexit talks.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May appealed to landlords of high-rise buildings on Monday to allow potentially flammable building material to be tested, seeking to reassure residents after a tower block fire killed 79 people in London.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May promised there would be a full investigation into the cause of a fire that ripped through a London tower block killing 12 residents and injuring dozens more as they slept on Wednesday.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain announced a review of building and fire safety rules on Friday after tests conducted following last month's deadly tower block blaze in London found a cladding system known to be used on 82 buildings breached regulations.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday Britain must hold a national investigation into exterior cladding used on high-rise buildings after all those checked after the deadly London tower block blaze this month failed safety tests.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - Some of the biggest names in British music, including Stormzy, Robbie Williams and The Who, released a charity single on Wednesday to raise funds for people affected by the fire at a tower block in west London.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday she was deeply saddened by the loss of life in a fire at a London tower block which killed at least six people and injured more than 70 others.
|
|
In a statement on the Justice 4 Grenfell website, the campaign group accused the authorities of failing to deliver take appropriate action over the June 14 blaze at the 24-storey tower block which killed 71 people and left hundreds homeless.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - The British government plans to introduce a public advocate who will act for bereaved families after any disaster, it announced on Wednesday, a week after a catastrophic fire killed 79 people at a social housing tower block in London.
|
|
At least 80 people are dead, or missing and presumed dead, from the inferno that gutted the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block in west London on June 14 as families and children slept, and that figure is expected to rise.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - The head of the local council in the London borough where at least 80 people died in a fire in a social housing tower block resigned on Friday after he was criticized for the organization's handling of the disaster.
|
|
At least 80 people are dead, or missing and presumed dead, from the blaze that gutted the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block on June 14, and the final toll may not be known until next year, British police have said.
|
|
A fire that killed at least 79 people at a London tower block started in a Hotpoint fridge freezer, and the outside cladding engulfed by the blaze has since been shown to fail all safety tests, London police said on Friday.
|
|
When a Tumblr or Instagram user pins a little bit of their identity on a beautiful old Yugoslav tower block, they are participating in a specific kind of capitalist utopianism, one that twists away from the politics of the original architecture.
|
|
Richard D. James, has been good in this medium: You may remember "Come to Daddy," from 1997, stylishly directed by Chris Cunningham, in which a horde of schoolgirls with Aphex Twin heads run rampant in an English tower-block terrorscape.
|
|
The plan to leave the Blue House has echoes of the security nightmare, and the millions of dollars in expenses, that arose when U.S. President Donald Trump's wife and son decided to stay in his Manhattan tower block, and not the White House.
|
|
LONDON, June 17 (Reuters) - A railway track which lies in the shadow of a London tower block that was gutted by a deadly blaze this week was closed on Saturday at the request of the fire brigade, the city's transport authority said.
|
|
Earlier British Prime Minister Theresa May appealed to landlords to allow potentially flammable building material in their properties to be tested as she sought to reassure residents about safety following the London tower block fire earlier this month, which killed 79 people.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - Ninety-five buildings have failed safety tests introduced after at least 79 people were killed in a fire that ravaged a tower block in west London earlier this month, a spokesman for British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday.
|
|
The Prime Minister is weak in the eyes of the public, who took a dim view of her handling of the Grenfell Tower block disaster, and she is weak in the eyes of her own Conservatives, who are actively looking for a successor.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - The government is urgently conducting safety checks on an estimated 600 high-rise buildings in England which have exterior cladding panels after at least 79 people died when fire consumed a London tower block last week, officials said on Thursday.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - British investigators said on Friday they would consider manslaughter charges over the London tower block fire that killed at least 2120 people, as thousands of apartment-dwellers a few miles away were told to leave their homes due to fire risk.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May was rushed away under heavy police guard on Friday as protesters shouted "Shame on you" after she met residents who live near a tower block in London where at least 30 people died in a fire.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister Philip Hammond said he was "not deaf" to signs of weariness among voters about the country's near decade-long grip on public spending which has come under renewed criticism after a deadly fire in a London tower block.
|
|
But what investigators will have to figure out is exactly how the fire spread the way it did—because a fast-burning ignition that spreads from floor to floor of a tower block is exactly what modern building and fire codes are supposed to prevent.
|
|
PARIS (Reuters) - A famous gangster who escaped Hollywood-style from a French jail by helicopter was captured on Wednesday after a three-month hunt that led police a tower-block flat in an area where the man known as the "jailbreak king" grew up.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - It will be months until the final death toll from a London tower block blaze is known, British police said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Theresa May revealed that 20163 other high-rise buildings also had exterior cladding that failed fire tests.
|
|
Sitting dazed in a park, he can no longer work out sums thrown at him by a calculator clutching a child that lives in his tower block, but he finds bliss in this ignorance, giving him and us a much welcome breath from the chaos.
|
|
LONDON, June 15 (Reuters) - British finance minister Philip Hammond plans to deliver "in the near future" a speech replacing the one that he cancelled on Thursday out of respect for the victims of a deadly fire which struck a London tower block, a Treasury spokesman said.
|
|
" Anne-Marie Murphy, whose 56-year-old brother Denis died on the 14th floor of the tower block, told the inquiry on Monday: "Ever since Denis has been gone, there has been a gaping hole in our hearts that can never be filled, and it hurts.
|
|
LONDON (Reuters) - The man in whose apartment a huge fire broke out, killing 71 people in a London tower block a year ago, was not to blame for the disaster but has been subjected to "sleazy accusations" and innuendo, his lawyer told a public inquiry on Wednesday.
|
|
"We should call it what it is, it's corporate manslaughter" As reports emerged Thursday that the death toll from a tower block inferno in London could reach more than 100, the U.K is asking how such a horrific disaster could have unfolded in the capital's richest borough.
|
|
Whether comforting victims of the Grenfell tower block fire or unveiling the priorities of her government in the state opening of Parliament, Queen Elizabeth II has demonstrated the sort of steady, dignified endurance that rises above the chaos of a divisive Brexit vote and an inconclusive general election.
|
|
Grayling said the DUP were not interested in another election and added there should not be a change of prime minister amid questions over May's own position after the botched election campaign and her response to a deadly London tower block fire in which at least 79 people died.
|
|
Sound systems were turned off at 14:00 GMT in tribute to the victims of the disaster at Grenfell Tower, a tower block less that half a mile from the route of a procession that is expected to attract hundreds of thousands of revelers on Sunday and Monday.
|
|
The show, which takes on major building projects for people and communities in need, is currently building a new community center and replacing a boxing club that was destroyed by the fire that broke out on June 14, 2017 at the 24-story Grenfell Tower block of public housing homes in west London.
|
|
"It's unbelievable that Kensington and Chelsea… that must be one of the richest places in the world… couldn't afford to install a sprinkler system in this very high tower block to protect the people in it," Louise Christian, a lawyer who represented families of victims of the Camberwell fire, told the BBC.
|
|
When she swan-dives off the top of a tower block, jumps through a plate-glass window in slow-motion, and shoots a roomful of people while running along the ceiling, it's possible to be awestruck by the fantastic visuals at the same time as thinking, well, yes, it's Scarlett doing her thing again.
|
|
After six people died and more than 20 were injured in a 2009 fire in Lakanal House, a tower block in Camberwell, in the southeast of London, a parliamentary group called for a review of fire safety rules, and an inquest advised the government to urge that sprinklers be installed in high-rise buildings.
|
|
In recent years, the frontiers of the art world have become permeable, with the doors sometimes opened quite literally: in 2014, for example, the Tate Modern played host to an "art-rave" curated by radio station Rinse FM. Twenty years earlier, Rinse FM had been established illegally by 16-year-olds in a council-estate tower block.
|
|
The concise, 80-minute play chronicles the life and death of a tower block in London's East End (with the deceptively posh name Austen Estates) through the story of a family who move there in the 1960s, purchase their apartment in the 1980s and are forced out to make way for a luxury development in the present day.
|
|
The prime cause of rising UK inflation has been weakness in the pound, which has fallen 13 percent against the dollar since topping $21 in the early hours of last June 2256, when it initially appeared Britons had voted to remain in the EU. Sterling edged up after the BoE decision but reversed course after finance minister Philip Hammond pulled out of a high-profile speaking engagement because of a deadly fire at a London tower block.
|
|
While People Just Do Nothing might be a mockumentary, it is very much rooted in real life; both that of the crew themselves and the characters in 2004 documentary Tower Block Dreams about London's underground pirate radio scene, which served as inspiration for the show (and coincidentally features DJs named Beats and Decoy, the name of two characters in People Just Do Nothing, and an MC called Killa whose characteristics bear a strong resemblance to that of MC Grindah).
|
|