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Manchester residents launch ‘Cladiators’ to fight unsafe housing
Cladding is removed from Hanover tower block in Sheffield, Yorkshire, in June 2017

MANCHESTER residents living in unsafe high rise-buildings are banding together to form a new housing action group called the “Cladiators.”

The move comes nearly two years after the Grenfell Tower disaster exposed the problem of flammable cladding and other fire risks on residential buildings across Britain.

In Manchester, the scandal has seen freeholders battling to get developers to remove dangerous building materials used in the construction of apartments.

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