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T_i_B

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6. Not so much "trendy"

Reply to pansypoo53219 (Reply #5)

Wed Jun 14, 2017, 04:32 PM

Jun 2017

As slightly less eye-gougingly ugly.

But the questions about such cladding being "deadly" do need to be answered, not just for the victims of this tragedy but for people who live in high rise flats across the UK.

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no shit. trendy, but deadly. pansypoo53219 Jun 2017 #5

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