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Katie Strick and Claudia Marquis

Grenfell: six years on — ‘we still have to face the traumas of the fire every day’

“It’s the most important anniversary, I think, until we get to 10 years,” Melanie Juno Wolfe tells me as she helps a tree surgeon to pin emerald green fabric around a giant tree in the shadow of Grenfell Tower.

The founder of North Kensington Community Kitchen and her army of helpers have been stationed here every day for weeks now, hanging paintings by local schoolchildren and adding new tributes to the memorial wall that has long been seen as a visible symbol of the grief felt by the west London community in the wake of the tragedy that was the Grenfell Tower fire.

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