At its height the timber-framed block of flats on Gershwin Road, Basingstoke, was "in danger of total collapse", a fire service spokesman said.

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In the first of his two goal chances, sub Eoin Bradley cut in from the left to charge through on goal but his shot was a good height for Dublin goalkeeper Cluxton who made the block.

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Yet 50 storeys -- the height of Britain's biggest and best-known block -- is still too high for some workers.

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Most Tory MPs also realise that a block-the-fire-station blackmail strategy, unleashed at the height of a global economic crisis, is risky.

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