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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ellie Ng

Flowers laid at Ladbroke Grove rail disaster memorial to honour those killed

Families bereaved by the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster have laid flowers at the memorial to honour those killed 25 years ago – each remembered as “precious and loved”.

Thirty-one people died and more than 220 were injured when a rush-hour train collided almost head-on with a high-speed train around two miles from Paddington station, west London, shortly after 8am on October 5 1999.

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