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Grenfell families ‘enraged’ by plan to keep ‘stay put’ policy
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Bereaved relatives of the Grenfell Tower blaze have said they are “enraged” by government plans to keep the controversial “stay put” policy instead of adopting an inquiry recommendation. Grenfell United has criticised...
Charity single recalls human cost of Grenfell tragedy five years on
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Five years on from the Grenfell fire, the focus needs to shift back to the young people directly affected by the tragedy, according to those behind a new charity single that features cameos from Top Boy’s Ashley Walte...
Grenfell Tower inquiry exposes miscommunication, poor governance and misguided policies
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The architect Sam Webb has never forgotten walking into the charred, smoke-blackened bathroom on the 11th floor of a tower block devastated by fire in July 2009. In the soot-covered bathtub were the smeared imprints o...
Grenfell inquiry told government had ideological aversion to red tape
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Calls to regulate against the potential incompetence of people who check fire risks in buildings before the Grenfell Tower disaster were dismissed by government ministers because of an “ideological” aversion to increa...
No Grenfell inquiry recommendations enacted by government, says Sadiq Khan
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Ministers have “failed to complete a single recommendation” from the first phase of a public inquiry into the devastating Grenfell Tower fire, Sadiq Khan has said. Die ondersoek, which looked at where the June 2017 fire...
Grenfell Athletic: the football club uniting a community hit by tragedy
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Hundreds of Sunday League clubs are in action up and down the country every week, but one of them stands out. Grenfell Athletic play in the premier division of the Middlesex County Sunday League and are only watched b...
Housing ministry ‘started rebuttal operation two days after Grenfell fire’
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Two days after the Grenfell Tower fire, the UK government mounted a rebuttal operation to counter potentially damaging reports that building regulations had allowed the use of combustible cladding, the public inquiry ...
Grenfell inquiry final phase: will politicians be held accountable?
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As the Grenfell inquiry heads towards its concluding stages, politicians will be called to account for their part in the deadly fire. Our social affairs correspondent Robert Booth has been watching on throughout• How ...
Grenfell-navraag: ex-ministers and serving secretary of state to be cross-examined
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Four former ministers and a serving secretary of state will be cross-examined this year in a potentially politically explosive climax to the four-year Grenfell Tower public inquiry. Eric Pickles, the former secretary ...
Grenfell survivors urge police to speed up criminal investigation
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Grenfell Tower survivors are demanding police accelerate their criminal investigation into the disaster so prosecutors can bring charges immediately, arguing enough evidence has emerged to deliver justice for their 72...
Grenfell delivers yet more horrors. But the guilty still fail to take responsibility
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Lying. Refusing to follow rules. Mocking the little people. Deflecting any blame. Not just this government’s response to a Christmas party that “never took place”, but the response of successive governments to the iss...
Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes team ends deal with Grenfell firm
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The Mercedes Formula One team and a firm that made combustible insulation used on Grenfell Tower have ended their sponsorship deal after outrage from bereaved friends and relatives, the survivors and the UK government...
Grenfell-navraag: regering 'diep jammer vir vorige mislukkings'
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Die regering het om verskoning gevra vir mislukkings in die aanloop tot die Grenfell Tower-brand, erken dat "foute en gemiste geleenthede" gehelp het om "'n omgewing te skep waarin so 'n tragedie moontlik was". Dit het gesê ...
Lewis Hamilton’s F1 team under pressure to scrap Grenfell cladding firm deal
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Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes Formula One team is facing growing pressure to scrap a sponsorship deal with a firm that made combustible insulation on Grenfell Tower, after the government threatened to change advertising r...
Grenfell Tower: Gove joins condemnation of Lewis Hamilton F1 deal
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Anger at Lewis Hamilton’s Formula One car being sponsored by a firm that made combustible insulation used on Grenfell Tower has intensified after a cabinet minister demanded a U-turn by Mercedes. Michael Gove, the sec...
Grenfell-navraag: fire chief admits brigade part of ‘institutional failure’
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The London fire brigade was part of “the most appalling example of institutional failure … in recent British history” at Grenfell Tower, the organisation’s current leader has admitted. Andy Roe, the London fire commis...