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Nia Dalton

Mum whose daughter survived Grenfell fire sews 220ft quilt to honour the 72 lives lost

"Mum, Grenfell is on fire." Those were the words Tuesday Greenidge remembers hearing when her daughter came frantically running down the small alley towards her flat in North Kensington on June 14, 2017.

Charlie Manning, then 33, had been visiting friends in the tower block on the night of the blaze, and fled the fifth floor out of the main entrance after it caught alight, with hundreds of people trapped inside.

They watched the flames in horror, knowing dozens of friends and neighbours living in Grenfell Tower; including Tony Disson, 65, who was in the lift with Charlie moments before, but heartbreakingly didn't survive.

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