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Professor Craig White was giving evidence to the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry.

Chief medical officer says ‘very low’ capacity made treating the virus difficult

The public inquiry into the fire at Grenfell Tower has concluded that the tragedy was the result of “decades of failure” by government and other bodies to effectively regulate the safety of high-risk residential buildings.

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

Seven years after the fire in Grenfell Tower took 72 lives, the final report into the causes of the tragedy has been published. The inquiry’s findings place damning blame on companies, the government, bodies responsible for building regulation and emergency services. It concludes the victims were “badly failed” by those…

It is tempting to think that politics stops today. That the publication of the final report by the Grenfell Inquiry demands a cessation of partisan hostilities. That the House of Commons is, in that tedious cliché, "at its best" when it is united. But this would be wrong.

‘Unscrupulous’ companies, ‘dishonesty and greed’ and regulatory failure are at fault.

Thouria Istephan says inquiry ‘left a mark on me as a person... which will last far beyond the inquiry’

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…