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The government said it is ''working at speed to ensure substandard installations are identified and remediated with no cost to the consumer'.'

Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service said it had no choice but to order the closure of the buildings "in the absence of any suitable plans to remediate the fire safety shortfalls".

The Times conducted its own sampling across 40 properties in Altadena and Pacific Palisades, which found that two of 10 remediated Eaton-area sites still showed lead levels more than three times the standard.

Engineers advised it would "not be practical to remediate all or part of the damaged structure" and the tower was "especially damaged above the 10th floor".

The environmental services company remediated the SUV and, while doing so, detected high levels of mercury and recovered solid mercury, according to the indictment.