tower block
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The 33-year-old is currently living in a hotel after being evacuated from her flat, in east London, following a fatal fire in her tower block earlier this month.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Residents in a noted brutalist tower block in east London have been stranded in their homes after the 26-storey building's two lifts stopped working.
From BBC ● May 21, 2025
The bodies of Juliana Falcon, 48, Kyle Prosper, 16, and Giselle Prosper, 13, were found at their home in the Leabank Court tower block in September.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2025
The fire in the west London tower block killed 72 people in 2017, the inquiry found all their deaths were avoidable.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2025
It took a clobbering in the Blitz—I wasn’t there, thank God—and the replacement buildings and the tower block are a national disgrace.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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