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Cladding, mould, £75,000 charges – welcome to life in a British leasehold flat

www.theguardian.com 22-12-2024 08:00 1 Minutes reading

Residents of a blighted London block have been trapped in their homes by a swirl of events, as government attempts to reform the law drag on

For many of the residents of Mar House, the past year has been spent in perpetual twilight.

The seven-­storey block in Colindale, north London, is cloaked in blue netting and scaffolding that shroud its rooms in shadow in the middle of the day. The netting is for work to replace the building’s flammable Grenfell-style cladding and wooden balconies.

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Donald Trump has demanded that the Panama Canal be given back to the US if Panama did not manage the waterway in a fashion that was acceptable to him – and he accused the central American country of charging excessive rates for use of the ocean-connecting ship passage.

“The fees being charged by Panama are ridiculous, especially knowing the extraordinary generosity that has been bestowed to Panama by the US,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform late Saturday, a little more than a month before the start of his second US presidency. “This complete ‘rip-off’ of our Country will immediately stop….”

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