Quote:More than 800 homes in tower blocks on a council estate in Camden, north London, are being evacuated because of fire safety concerns.

Camden Council says people in five towers on the Chalcots estate will be moved for "urgent fire safety works" - and it is "block-booking hotels".

The estate's cladding is similar to Grenfell Tower in west London, where there was a deadly fire this month.

A total of 79 people are feared dead after that disaster.

Camden Council said it will remove external thermal cladding from five tower blocks on the Chalcots estate.

It also said there were concerns about "gas pipe insulation".

The council initially announced the evacuation of one tower block, Taplow, but later extended the move to all five tower blocks it had checked.

Residents of the estate attended a public meeting with council officials on Thursday evening.

The council leader, Labour's Georgia Gould, said the decision to evacuate the buildings was made at about 18:30 BST on Friday after the fire service "told us they could not guarantee our residents' safety in those blocks".

On Friday night some residents said the first they heard of the evacuation was on the news.

And - although the council said it was booking hotels - some residents said they were spending the night on air beds in a gym.