the building safety fund was one of the schemes set up in the wake of the grenfell tower tragedy, covering cladding of wood and other flammable laminates. but as sarah corker reports, in the few buildings where remedial work has begun, there are fresh problems. imagine having to live inside this your home wrapped in plastic sheeting for months on end, windows that barely open, no way to see out. here you are, sarah, middle of the day, no natural light. jim lives on the first floor at islington gates, here in birmingham city centre. and this is the limited air we can get into the flat. this is the view for the next year that you ve got? yeah, 12 months of being depressed. there is relief that the combustible cladding is being removed, but government funding won t cover the full cost of almost £9 million. it means leaseholders need to find more than 1 million between them. that s at least £20,000 each. what s it like living in this box?
had with nazanin s case, that she s going to be thrown back in prison any time soon. so i wanted to make an escalation that would get the attention of the british government, but also, in the end, we do need the british to move. the bbc has learned that 18 months after the government announced a £1 billion scheme, to help tower block owners remove flammable cladding from their homes, funds so far have been allocated to less than a third of nearly 700 applications processed so far. the building safety fund, was one of the schemes set up in the wake of the grenfell tower tragedy, covering cladding of wood and other flammable laminates. but as sarah corker reports, in the few buildings where remedial work has begun, there are fresh problems. imagine having to live inside this your home wrapped in plastic sheeting for months on end, windows that barely open, no way to see out.
before passing judgment. hugh pym, bbc news. more than 100,000 women being underpaid £1 billion of state pensions. a report into failures at the department for work and pensions found systematic problems dating back to the 1980s. years of repeated human errors and outdated it systems have been blamed. sarah corker reports. for nearly a decade, irene, from worcestershire, was underpaid her state pension. for nearly a decade, irene from worcestershire was underpaid her state pension.
pundits and people are saying no .1% on our gdp, pretty tiny. could be bad for our car makers, for example, and what would america want in return? could we see the issue of food stand is coming back on the table again? ultimately, the broken trade representatives have said, hang on, look at the fine print of the deal with the rest of our neighbours. there is no room for new joiners whatsoever. surprise surprise, we had both governments saying the ultimate prize is a free trade deal but they might have an appetite for british lamb but it doesn t look like they have worked one up yet forgetting the talks back one up yet forgetting the talks back on the table. t one up yet forgetting the talks back on the table- on the table. i know you will keep an e e on the table. i know you will keep an eye on on the table. i know you will keep an eye on it. on the table. i know you will keep an eye on it, thank on the table. i know you will keep an eye on it, thank you on the table. i know yo
thank you dominic. more than 100,000 people, many of them women, have been underpaid a total of a billion pounds in state pensions. that s the finding of a report by the national audit office, which blames years of repeated mistakes and outdated computer systems at the department for work and pensions. sarah corker reports. for nearly a decade, irene from worcestershire was underpaid her state pension. she is one of thousands of women in their 70s and 80s who missed out on large sums of money because of government errors. i think it s scandalous. i think that the fact that you have to battle for something that s rightfully yours is awful, because i was lucky, i ve got richard to help me, but anybody who s a widow, and perhaps not financially up with it, and they re perhaps struggling on the breadline, it could make a tremendous difference. irene has now been paid the £7,000 she was owed,