Grenfell tower

The council at the heart of the Grenfell Tower disaster is meeting tonight. On the agenda: formally approving a new leader and chief executive. But they’ll also debate a petition signed by more than 1,500 people calling for the entire council leadership to resign, claiming there’s no confidence in their ability to manage public buildings.

A month after the Grenfell Tower disaster, another funeral: this time five year old Isaac, one of the youngest victims, who lived with his family on the 13th floor. But new documents dating back to 2012 show that architects originally wanted to use more expensive, fire-resistant cladding around the building.

Abdurahman Sayed, from the Al-Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre, says there is a “communication gap” between Grenfell residents and the authorities that needs to be addressed, while it is vital that local people are involved in the public inquiry into the fire.

One of the consequences of this horrific fire has been to expose what residents say is the huge gulf between the people who live in this part of the borough and the people who run it. An accusation which gained added weight when the new leader of the council admitted she had never been in…

We speak to Sajad Jamalvatan, a student who lived on the third floor of the block who was at the meeting last night.

We spoke to Labour MP Clive Betts who is the newly elected chair of the local government select committee in the Commons. We began by asking him if he had been shocked by some of the revelations coming to light in the wake of the Grenfell fire?

This week Channel 4 News has exclusively revealed details of combustible materials that were used in the cladding at Grenfell Tower when it was renovated last year. Now a new question: Did the refurbishment create air spaces between the new windows and the building’s original walls that increased the fire’s ability to spread rapidly?

Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire are to be given an extra two weeks to make their case about which issues the forthcoming public inquiry should consider. It comes as 29-year-old Berkti Haftom and 26-year-old Gloria Trevisan were officially identified as victims of the fire. And tonight we have more news on the type of…

One woman who was there at the Grenfell Tower fire from the early hours was London Fire Brigade’s new Commissioner Dany Cotton. In an exclusive interview a month on from the disaster, Commissioner Cotton tells Jackie Long she had “sufficient resources” and that the brigade’s “stay put policy” is usually the best one.

The Grenfell Tower fire triggered the largest review of building safety in the UK since the Second World War, and in particular the cladding systems put on many of the country’s tower blocks. Two major insulation components have been identified as part of the investigation into how the fire spread. Tonight this programme can reveal…

Melyvn Akins, a resident of the West Lancaster Estate, West London resident and volunteer, MzB, and Lord Falconer, a QC and former Lord Chancellor, discuss the inquiry into the Grenfell fire.

Theresa May says she was right to call an election and will pursue a “bold” strategy. After criticism of her initial response to the Grenfell fire, she says she listened to residents and ensured the emergency services received the support they needed.

Trust: there’s not a lot of it around in a community which feels forgotten, abandoned and unheard. And last night, there were heckles and jeers as the Grenfell inquiry chair Sir Martin Moore-Bick faced angry residents at a meeting in West London. There was disquiet over the inquiry’s timescale and terms of reference, as Sir…

Conservative MP Kevin Hollinrake, who used to sit on the communities and local government select committee, Joe Delaney, from the Grenfell Action Group, and shadow housing minister Melanie Onn discuss the Grenfell disaster.

Communities Secretary Sajid Javid says Grenfell would have overwhelmed any council, but “the reaction on the ground was lacking” in North Kensington. He says a judge is needed to head the inquiry into the disaster because he can compel people to come forward, and accuses Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn of treating the issue like a…