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A local authority in North London has announced it will remove external cladding from five tower blocks, following fire testing.

Camden Council says the arrangement of cladding and insulation on its blocks is different from that on Grenfell Tower - but that the panels fitted were not to the standard it had commissioned.

Bob O'Toole runs the residents association on the Chalcot Estate in the borough. He confirmed to Radio 4's World at One that the removal was taking place.

He had previously thought the panels were safe as there was a fire in the tower block "in 2012 and the fire was contained... and the cladding was only scorched".

(Photo: Scorched panel at Taplow Tower, Chalcot Estate, London after fire in 2012. Credit: Camden New Journal).