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Grenfell fire chief describes ‘granular horror’ and courage at tower disaster

Ex-London Fire Brigade commissioner Lord Roe of West Wickham was confronted with ‘absolute failure of the building’ as he backs Grenfell memorial.

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Reform urged to sack housing spokesman over ‘deeply offensive’ Grenfell comments

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PM urges Farage to sack Reform housing spokesman over ‘shameful’ Grenfell remark

Simon Dudley said the deadly blaze was a ‘tragedy’, but that ‘everyone dies in the end’.

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Delays to justice after disasters such as Grenfell are ‘stain on society’, says new victims advocate for England and Wales

Cindy Butts says she’s determined to stop victims being forced to investigate for themselves after state failings

The Guardian - UK

Bereaved father: Grenfell documentary must mark turning point in justice fight

Marcio Gomes hopes viewers might be prompted to take action, from writing to their MPs to raising awareness on social media.

The Independent UK

MP: Grenfell-style mistakes could be repeated over battery storage regulation

Liberal Democrat John Milne said there were ‘alarming parallels’ with the systemic failure which led to the west London tower block fire.

Evening Standard

Expert warns against quick-fix online fire safety training years after Grenfell

Dame Judith Hackitt urged ‘more people to take personal responsibility and leadership in different parts of this built environment sector’.

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Angela Rayner was 'escorted out of Grenfell meeting' amid shock and anger at demolition announcement

Families of victims have criticised Government decision - but feelings about the move in the wider community are more mixed

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Netflix film ‘shaped by the voices of Grenfell’s bereaved and survivors’

The 90-minute documentary, with the working title Grenfell, comes from Rogan Productions.

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Kemi Badenoch handed £5,000 by councillor who dismissed ‘grossly exaggerated’ Grenfell concerns

Quentin Marshall, who was chair of Kensington and Chelsea council’s housing committee, donates to Badenoch’s bid to succeed Rishi Sunak

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on the regulatory state: Labour must put people before profit

Grenfell showed what can happen when human needs are disregarded. Tougher laws governing business are one answer

The Guardian - UK

Penny-pinching and adversarial: construction industry’s ‘rotten culture’ faces Grenfell reckoning

Findings on 2017 fire at London tower block raise wide-ranging questions over prevailing attitudes and practices

The Guardian - UK

‘Professional buck-passers’: why the excoriating Grenfell report was right to damn architects

The ultimate responsibility for the tower’s safety lay with its architect, said the 1,700-page report, which highlighted a ‘widespread failure among the profession’. Why are so many architects now utterly detached from the realities of construction?

The Guardian - UK

‘Absolutely shameful’: Grenfell campaigners criticise MPs for leaving before Starmer statement on tragedy

Sir Keir apologised to those affected by the Grenfell Tower disaster on behalf of the British State

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The Guardian - UK

Thursday briefing: What the Grenfell inquiry reveals about the incompetence and dishonesty that led to the fire

In today’s newsletter: Sir Martin Moore-Bick’s report lays out how to avoid a similar disaster from happening again. But the bereaved want to more than recommendations – they want prosecutions

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the Grenfell report: a shocking indictment of government and industry

Editorial: Ministers must act after a damning verdict on decades of regulatory failure and corporate dishonesty

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan warns 'tragedy like Grenfell' could still 'happen again' following inquiry's report

The mayor has urged the Government to ensure none of the companies criticised in the inquiry’s report are given future public contracts

Evening Standard

'Grenfell, Dagenham... how many more?': Inside London's shameful cladding crisis

Today’s Grenfell report has called for urgent work on fire safety, but victims — and those still trapped in London’s 1,300 cladded buildings — say there isn’t time to lose. Katie Strick reports

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OPINION - The Standard View: Grenfell Inquiry must be a catalyst for justice

It has taken more than seven years, hundreds of witness statements and thousands of hours of testimony to reach this point. The final report into the Grenfell Tower disaster was published this morning, with ferocious criticism directed at central government, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, construction firms and…

The Guardian - UK

Seven years after Grenfell disaster, thousands live in fear of cladding fire

As the final report on the fatal London blaze looms, many developers have not begun safety work

The Guardian - UK

Westminster coroner’s court extension review – an extension of deep sympathy

A Beatrix Potter-meets-ancient-Rome aesthetic brings and dignity and intimacy to Patrick Lynch’s addition to the coroner’s court that held the hearings into Grenfell and the Westminster Bridge attacks

The Guardian - UK

Michael Mansfield KC: ‘The two-party system is a straitjacket’

The barrister famous for his work on landmark cases such as Grenfell, Stephen Lawrence and the Birmingham Six has written a book about fighting injustice

The Guardian - UK

Chris Ofili: Requiem review – Grenfell Tower as a burning cage in an ocean of despair

The artist’s dramatic site-specific work, partly a memorial to artist Khadija Saye, who died in the fire, is like a transition between life and death or grief and acceptance

The Guardian - UK

Causes of Grenfell fire were entwined with policy decisions driven by saving money

Any help the community gets pales in comparison with their loss and trauma

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors; Cuckoo; The Sound of Music – review

Gillian Slovo’s new verbatim play about the 2017 tragedy is overpowering theatre that doubles as activism; a comedy of iPhone-fixated family dysfunction is hilariously relatable; and the hills are alive again

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