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Two pieces of news in one week have highlighted the scale of the fire safety crisis in UK buildings – a crisis which, it is thought, could be endangering millions of lives. On Sunday the Guardian published analysis showing that more than 70 schools are likely to have been cladded in combustible...

The Fire Brigades Union’s annual conference has indicated that it believes an attack on firefighter pay and conditions is coming from the Westminster government, and has passed a motion which prepares the union to fight this attack. The FBU is gearing up for a fight with the government on various...

Commenting on Labour's demands for action from the government to fix the building safety crisis, Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary, said: “We welcome Labour’s demands for a deadline to remove all combustible cladding. Developers and the government must put an end to our building safety crisis once...

Firefighters must be ready to fight ‘tooth and nail’ for their service, say the Fire Brigades Union, after the appointment of former National Fire Chief’s Council (NFCC) chair Roy Wilsher as a government advisor on forthcoming reform to fire and rescue services in England. Wilsher, who served at the...