Residents trapped up an iconic Brutalist tower block have been offered only £100 in compensation despite being unable to leave their homes.

Those living in the top floors of the 26-storey Balfron Tower, east London, have been periodically stuck in their flats as the lifts keep breaking down.

They told Metro one of the lifts in the Grade II-listed tower is temperamental and the second one stopped working completely last in May.

Vasundhata Gupte, 22, cannot walk up and down the stairs because of a hamstring injury.

She said: ‘I am coming back from recovery sessions for my leg, but I then have to walk up 15 flights of stairs so what is even the point in trying to fix it.’

The Ernő Goldfinger building, on the Brownfield Estate, is managed by property firm Way of Life and two-bed flats typ

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