tower block

On Tuesday, Home Office minister Dame Angela Eagle told a committee of MPs the government were looking to buy tower blocks and former student accommodation to house migrants as an alternative to asylum hotels.

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.

Finley has plans to abseil down a tower block at Southend Hospital on 16 May to raise money for the Mid and South Essex Hospitals Charity.

In Bangkok, where soft soil made the shaking more intense, an unfinished tower block collapsed, burying many who had been working at the site.

Worapat Sukthai, deputy police chief of Bang Sue district, told the French news agency AFP that he could hear the sound of people screaming under the tower block collapse.