:00:20. > :00:26.The Government says it is drafting in a team of civil servants to help
:00:27. > :00:35.improve the official response to the Grenfell Tower fire,
:00:36. > :00:38.amid mounting anger over the lack of help being provided to victims.
:00:39. > :00:41.Many residents have said they've received little or no
:00:42. > :00:42.assistance from Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council,
:00:43. > :00:44.although the authority has insisted it's committed
:00:45. > :00:47.Church services are being held today to remember
:00:48. > :00:52.the victims of the blaze, as Simon Jones reports.
:00:53. > :01:00.After the shock and the grief, today, a moment of reflection,
:01:01. > :01:05.church services to mark the lives lost and the many missing, presumed
:01:06. > :01:09.dead. That anger remains palpable. The difficulty is people are now
:01:10. > :01:13.finding out who has died and that will be enormous grief as well as
:01:14. > :01:19.enormous anger. I think you will see a whole different kind of atmosphere
:01:20. > :01:22.because people... The deaths are now real. Many churches opened their
:01:23. > :01:28.doors in the hours after the tragedy, offering shelter and
:01:29. > :01:33.collecting donations, but people are asking, why did they need to step
:01:34. > :01:37.in, where was the Government, the local council? Why didn't they do
:01:38. > :01:41.more? One conservative councillor from Kensington and Chelsea admits
:01:42. > :01:46.things have gone badly wrong. From what I can see, we have been caught
:01:47. > :01:55.off-guard. Underground, people were quick to organise themselves. It has
:01:56. > :01:59.been kind of a disgraceful slow, limp, if I can put it like that. The
:02:00. > :02:03.Prime Minister accepts that in the hours after the disaster, the
:02:04. > :02:06.support for families was not good enough. Now extra government staff
:02:07. > :02:09.are being drafted in to work with the council. It follows a meeting
:02:10. > :02:14.between the local people and the reason may in which they were keen
:02:15. > :02:19.to have their voices heard. Things are finally moving forward and the
:02:20. > :02:23.Government and the council are being proactive. I think sadly it took a
:02:24. > :02:30.long time to get them up and running and if it wasn't for other centres,
:02:31. > :02:36.none of this would have been done. We are lucky we have so many bright,
:02:37. > :02:39.important, smart people in the area. The Home Office is making
:02:40. > :02:43.arrangements for the family of one of those who died to travel from
:02:44. > :02:48.Syria to the UK for the funeral. He was killed when he was separated
:02:49. > :02:53.from his brother. His life, one of many remembered today. I think there
:02:54. > :02:59.will be a special sense of grieving, sadness, in the churches today, as
:03:00. > :03:03.people remember what has happened and people are still homeless as
:03:04. > :03:07.well, but I think also there will be a note of hope. The painstaking
:03:08. > :03:12.investigation is continuing but the warning from police is there will be
:03:13. > :03:18.no quick answers. We can join Simon in West London now. How is the
:03:19. > :03:23.increased government support showing itself to people on the ground? The
:03:24. > :03:26.church service here has just finished and people have been taking
:03:27. > :03:31.a moment to look at the flowers, bring more, look at the posters of
:03:32. > :03:34.the faces of people missing who are sadly now presumed dead. The
:03:35. > :03:39.Government says extra staff are coming in and some will be wearing
:03:40. > :03:43.high visibility clothing to be easily identified by people who need
:03:44. > :03:47.them. A lot of residents say they have seen no sign of them at all so
:03:48. > :03:57.far today. We have asked the Government where they are but they
:03:58. > :03:59.have not given us an answer. This is a community that needs trust
:04:00. > :04:02.rebuilding with the Government. The tributes are here, but just over
:04:03. > :04:05.there, you can see the police operation is continuing, along with
:04:06. > :04:10.the Fire Service, and what remains of the tower block, still a shocking
:04:11. > :04:14.sight. The warning is this investigation is not going to be
:04:15. > :04:15.quick and it is likely going to be painful. Simon Jones there, thank
:04:16. > :04:18.you. The Chancellor, Philip Hammond,
:04:19. > :04:21.says Brexit negotiations that end with no deal would be an extremely
:04:22. > :04:23.bad outcome for Britain. It comes as formal talks with the EU
:04:24. > :04:26.are set to get under way Labour say the Government's approach
:04:27. > :04:31.so far has left the UK in the worst Our political correspondent,
:04:32. > :04:35.Susana Mendonca, is in Wesminster. Philip Hammond is taking a slightly
:04:36. > :04:49.different position Yes, we have heard Theresa May say
:04:50. > :04:53.so many times have no deal would be better than a bad deal. Here we have
:04:54. > :04:58.Philip Hammond, the Chancellor saying no deal would be a very, very
:04:59. > :05:02.bad outcome for Britain and he talks about how he wants a transitional
:05:03. > :05:05.structure which means we have a slope rather than the cliff edge
:05:06. > :05:09.people have spoken about. This is contrary to what other members of
:05:10. > :05:13.the Cabinet think. Philip Hammond has been critical also of the
:05:14. > :05:17.Government's approach and the Conservatives' campaign in the
:05:18. > :05:19.general election and his role which he felt was not as it should have
:05:20. > :05:22.been. It's true that my role
:05:23. > :05:24.in the election campaign was not I did a lot of travelling
:05:25. > :05:29.around the country... I met lots of very interesting
:05:30. > :05:33.people and I heard lots Look, I would have liked
:05:34. > :05:36.to have made much more of our economic record,
:05:37. > :05:39.which I think is an excellent one, creating 2.9 million new jobs,
:05:40. > :05:51.getting the deficit down There you have for it, the
:05:52. > :05:53.Chancellor who was not have happy at being sidelines, talking about how
:05:54. > :06:01.the Conservatives should have focused on the positive economic
:06:02. > :06:05.message. We have got Brexit negotiations coming up, tomorrow,
:06:06. > :06:09.and Labour have said Theresa May has effectively put the country into a
:06:10. > :06:14.very difficult position, put the starting point back in terms of the
:06:15. > :06:15.negotiations. All eyes will be on what happens between the EU and
:06:16. > :06:19.Britain of course. Thank you. A murder investigation is under way
:06:20. > :06:21.after an 18-year-old woman's body was found in a country
:06:22. > :06:23.park in Wigan. She's been named by police
:06:24. > :06:25.as Ellen Higginbottom. The discovery was made
:06:26. > :06:27.in Orrell Water Park yesterday, after Ellen had been reported
:06:28. > :06:32.missing by family members on Friday. Police say she had suffered a brutal
:06:33. > :06:35.attack and are appealing for anyone with information
:06:36. > :06:38.to come forward. France is voting in the second
:06:39. > :06:41.and final round of the country's President Emmanuel Macron's party,
:06:42. > :06:48.La Republique en Marche, which was formed just over a year
:06:49. > :06:52.ago, is predicted to win up to three-quarters of the seats
:06:53. > :07:04.in the national assembly. The bodies of a number of sailors
:07:05. > :07:07.missing after a US naval destroyer collided with a container vessel
:07:08. > :07:10.have been found. An investigation is under way to establish how the
:07:11. > :07:11.collision occurred with the Philippine vessel in the middle of
:07:12. > :07:14.the night. A forest fire in central
:07:15. > :07:16.Portugal is believed The blaze is spreading though
:07:17. > :07:19.the centre of the country Nearly 600 firefighters and 160
:07:20. > :07:25.vehicles have been dispatched Many of those who died
:07:26. > :07:29.were trapped in their cars. Our correspondent,
:07:30. > :07:41.Alison Roberts, reports. People flee as the flames moving.
:07:42. > :07:44.The fires that have swept across this mountainous part of Portugal
:07:45. > :07:51.have devastated everything in their way. Dozens of fire started
:07:52. > :07:53.yesterday amid hot, dry conditions, but it is this fire here that has
:07:54. > :07:58.claimed so many lives. TRANSLATION: We were inside the
:07:59. > :08:01.house, the fire was all around us. The firefighters came to get us
:08:02. > :08:03.out because we could As for whether the house
:08:04. > :08:13.burned or not, it must 700 firefighters battling this
:08:14. > :08:23.blaze, hundreds more fighting elsewhere. At least 30 of the deaths
:08:24. > :08:25.came as people tried to flee in their cars.
:08:26. > :08:28.Other deaths and injuries occurred along or near the highway in this
:08:29. > :08:31.Officials were visibly shaken by the deaths.
:08:32. > :08:33.Portugal's Prime Minister said it was the worst ever such tragedy
:08:34. > :08:43.The victim is all died in the same fire at the same place. The criminal
:08:44. > :08:49.investigation department and the forensic teams are at work to try to
:08:50. > :08:50.identify the victims. Several firefighters are among those
:08:51. > :08:55.seriously injured or missing. France and Spain sent aircraft
:08:56. > :08:57.to back up Portugal's own efforts, but with temperatures expected
:08:58. > :08:59.to remain high, firefighters face You can see more on all of today's
:09:00. > :09:08.stories on the BBC News Channel. The next news on BBC
:09:09. > :09:29.One is at 6.30pm. Good afternoon. The hot weather that
:09:30. > :09:32.has developed across many areas this weekend is going to be pretty tricky
:09:33. > :09:34.to budge through the week ahead.