Grenfell tower

The fallout from the Grenfell Tower fire has continued, with the number of high-rise blocks failing fire safety checks rising to 75. Every single residential block that has now been tested has failed safety tests. It has also emerged that in Camden, where four blocks were evacuated, more than 1,000 fire doors were missing. And…

Georgia Gould said fire service experts warned the north London council that residents were not safe in some council housing blocks.

Camden residents Gemma Biggs and Hanad Mohamed are refusing to leave their Camden council flats despite fire safety fears, calling the local authority’s actions “chaotic”.

Dr Gary Wannan, a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, and Louise Theodosiou, from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, discuss the impact of the Grenfell Tower disaster on the children affected and how they should be helped.

When Grenfell Tower was destroyed by fire last week, many families living in neighbouring blocks also had to evacuate their homes. Eleven-year-old Sara El Saied was amongst them. Sara was living with her family on Grenfell Walk, right opposite the tower, when the fire broke out. And from the moment the family fled that night,…

According to latest figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government, cladding in 14 high rises has failed a combustibility test. The towers are in nine local authority areas, including Camden, Manchester, Plymouth, Portsmouth and Hounslow.  The locations of the other four have not yet been made public.

The London Mayor Sadiq Khan has declared that the entire leadership at Kensington and Chelsea council should consider their positions – saying there was “not a chance in hell” that residents would have “the semblance of confidence” in them. The council’s chief executive has already quit – but are those with political power accepting their…

Grenfell Tower was home to people who had come to London from all corners of the world. Mahbboubeh, from Iran, was one of them. She moved into her flat on the third floor just seven months ago and was alone when the devastating fire tore through the tower block last week. She does not remember…

With us to discuss the Grenfell fire and the aftermath was the Conservative MP Chris Philp and the Shadow Housing Minister Andy Slaughter.

Seven high rise blocks in four English regions which have been tested so far have combustible outer cladding – just like that on Grenfell Tower, according to Number 10.

Our Science Editor, Tom Clarke, has more on the Grenfell Tower fire.

The Finsbury Park attack has added to the air of tension and desolation that hangs over the capital, and indeed the country. But the images of crashed vehicles and armed police, not to mention the election campaign, have been overtaken as a symbol of this summer by the stark shell of that Grenfell Tower block…

A minute’s silence was observed this morning in memory of those who died in the Grenfell fire – a number now put at 79 by the emergency services, who have searched the building, but they still say they cannot be sure that this is the final total.

Theresa May met survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire – as well as volunteers and community leaders – in Downing Street this afternoon. And while she reassured families affected by the disaster that the Government was there for them, she admitted that support on the ground in the initial hours was simply not good enough.

“This is a tale of two cities. This is what Dickens was writing about in the century before last, and it’s still here in 2017.”