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The death toll has risen to 17, but police are warning

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The building is still smouldering, 36 hours

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after the devastating blaze took hold.

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Firefighters who have reached the top floors say there is no hope

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My fire fighters were desperate to get in there and desperate

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to rescue people and we committed crew after crew into a very

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dangerous, very hot and very difficult situation.

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Specialist teams are now trying to make the tower safe so they can

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The faces of some of the many who are still unaccounted for,

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young and old, many of them trapped on the upper floors of the building.

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Jessica, she is still missing, she was on the news,

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and it is horrible for me to hear they are missing or

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they are dead or they are in hospital or something.

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How did the blaze start and why did it engulf the entire

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So many questions and as yet no answers.

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Stay with BBC news throughout the day.

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Firefighters say they are not expecting to find anyone else alive

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in this tower block, which is still smouldering,

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36 hours after a massive fire tore through it.

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But the London Fire Brigade chief says there are still unknown numbers

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Friends and relatives of the missing are still desperately

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37 people remain in hospital, 17 are critical.

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This morning the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition

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The Prime Minister has announced there will be a full public inquiry.

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The Queen paid tribute to the "bravery" of the hundreds

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of firefighters who battled against the flames.

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She also praised the "incredible generosity" of volunteers who've

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poured in to this area offering help and support.

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Richard Lister with our first report and warning that this

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The smoke blackened ruin was still smouldering this morning. It took

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more than 24 hours to get the blaze under control. Pockets of late in

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areas that were too dangerous to reach. There were bodies as well.

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Nobody knows how many. Finding them is a challenge. This will be a very

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slow and painstaking process. This is a large building. There will be a

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large amount of building work required internally, structures will

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need to be built to ensure the floors are safe. Before we do that

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we are going to utilise some specialist dog training teams that

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we have, in conduction with the Metropolitan Police, that will go

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through the building and surrounding area looking for identification of

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people. The search could take weeks and police say the number of dead is

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expected to rise, but how much is not clear. Our absolute priority for

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all of us is about identifying and locating those people who are still

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missing and it would be fit wrong of me to give a number that is not

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accurate. One person has been reported 46 times that they believe

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to be missing. How did this happen? The cause has not been formally

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identified. Understanding why it spreads of us could take weeks,

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months, and for local people who saw the disaster unfold, grief is

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turning to anger. If you had seen that building go up like I saw it

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from my back window you would have no doubt it was not fit for purpose.

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Someone may be catastrophic error. We are grieving but there is public

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anger underneath and we want to see someone held accountable. I feel

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angry that I saw people dying in front of my eyes. I saw kids and

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women and kids this age hanging from windows with teddies. That angered

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me, and nobody could help them. This war has become a collection of a

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community upset. Some have left messages for loved ones and others

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are thanking the emergency services. The Queen said her thoughts and

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prayers are with the families who have lost loved ones in the Grenfell

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Tower fire. The Prime Minister went to see the

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site for herself this morning. Downing Street stressed it was a

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private visit and Theresa May did not make any public statements. She

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has promised a full investigation. The area around the tower is

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littered with these burnt remnants of the building's cladding.

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Survivors will want to know why it was so flammable and wider concerns

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were not taken more seriously. It was obvious that the time when I

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worked here in 2015 that the tenants were very aware of multiple problems

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with the building including potential fire safety problems, and

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I worked with that community, the tenant management did not listen to

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them. The contractor did not listen to the tenants' concerns. As fires

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continued in part of the building today those responsible for Grenfell

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Tower insisted it complied with all the relevant building codes and

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regulations, but it stands as a monument to a fire protection policy

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that clearly failed in the most devastating way.

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There are a lot of people missing, whole families

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Heart breaking stories of last phone calls and messages from people

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Relatives and friends have been travelling from hospital to hospital

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Our reporter reports on the desperate search

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for the missing, and again a warning that viewers may find

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There's Hospital in Paddington is looking after 11 patients, three of

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them in critical care, mostly suffering with smoke inhalation.

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This person is visiting her friends daughter who is extremely unwell.

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She is not in a good condition because she is in ICU. She cannot

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talk. We have just seen this family and this is their extended family

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that you have gone to see. Utterly distraught. How are you? How is the

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community? I do not know. I do not know what to say. I am really

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stressed and really disappointed. I could not believe what happened to

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them. It was like a dream. Many families desperately searching for

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loved ones have come here since Wednesday morning but as the hours

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passed the search becomes more agonising with the realisation that

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at this stage they are unlikely to get the news they so badly work for.

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This man is desperate. He was separated from his 12-year-old

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daughter Jessica during the fire and is still going from hospital to

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hospital to try to find her. I was at home. I was downstairs with a

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friend. The fire started and I tried to go upstairs and the firefighters

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were already there and they would not allow me to go up. She was out

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of the flat at 1:30am. She was making her way down with some

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people. Her phone cut off. We do not know. I think she was on the Spears.

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Hopefully someone has seen her in hospital. This is Jessica. Her

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friends are also trying to understand what has happened. I have

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a friend called Jessica. She is still missing. It is horrible for me

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to hear that they are missing or dead or in hospital or something. So

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many are still missing, the young and old.

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37 people are still in hospitals across London.

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Many of them are critical, adults and children suffering

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from injuries caused by smoke inhalation.

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Our reporter is at St Mary's hospital in Paddington,

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There's Hospital is the closest major hospital to the tower block.

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It is currently treating the greatest number of patients. There

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are 11 patients being treated here, the Mack in critical care. One of

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the greatest challenges facing medics here will be to treat signs

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of smoke inhalation. It can have serious effects on the lungs of the

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windpipe, the airways, it can cause swelling and make it difficult to

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breathe. For anyone the medics are particularly concerned about the may

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have put them in just coma and given them an artificial breathing chip to

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allow them to breathe in a controlled wait until the lungs

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recover. They will be looking for signs of carbon monoxide poisoning

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and cyanide poisoning because home furnishings in a closed space can

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leave people at risk of this. They have the antidote to that here as

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they will at all of the major trauma centres treating people from the

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fire. I spoke to one doctor who said it is likely the majority of people

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experiencing these problems will already have been seen across London

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but if anyone is worried, as signs of wheezing or difficulties

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breathing they should be checked out. The medics are aware that it is

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not just the physical problems of smoke inhalation that people will be

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feeling, there will be the psychological effects lingering

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across London for some time to come. Indeed.

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There is of course a lot of focus on the new exterior cladding

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that was put on this 1970s tower block just last year as part

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The main question, how was the fire able to take hold in just minutes

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Our reporter reports on the investigation ahead.

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Tower block fires, an international pattern is emerging. In France in

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2012 when a barbecue blaze spread rapidly up the outside mat like at

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Grenfell Tower, the cladding was a factor. Again in Melbourne, three

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years ago, similar cladding burning contributing to a fire which shocked

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Australia. On New Year's Eve at the end of 2015 in Dubai, the flames

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spreading like wildfire and across aluminium composite cladding. For

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fire safety expert there were warnings. There is enough evidence

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from fires in Australia, Abu Dhabi, France and others to show there is a

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problem unfolding. Spreading fires are an emerging issue and it is

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coming on the back of modern methods of construction which are leading to

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the introduction of new combustible materials, Vogts, a combustible

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structure. As the implications thinking it is natural people who

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live in tower blocks should be seeking reassurance because you only

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have to look at the website for instance of the company that

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supplied the cladding to see plenty of other examples of projects where

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similar looking cladding has been going in. There is a big job for

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councils calming people's fears where appropriate but taking action

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where it is necessary. The visits are starting. In derby fire officers

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going into buildings today to be sure residents about safety. There

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will be detailed inspections demanded by the government from

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councils across the country but that will not deal with concerns that

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materials can still be factor in a fire while meeting building

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regulations. There is a minimum requirement for the materials used

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and the installation of those materials. To say it was directly a

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fault of the cladding... It will soon come to light but it is very

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difficult to speculate at this time. It was the most shocking blaze

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firefighters had seen which spread at unprecedented speed. Experts have

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honed in on the cladding, faced with aluminium which may have peeled off

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exploding plastic material inside. There may have been flammable form

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insulation behind. Those babies the reasons. A grim and painstaking

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investigation is still to come. Well, as we've heard,

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Theresa May has been The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn also

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visited the scene and met volunteers helping the community

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as they try to cope He told them the truth

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about what happened had to come Our political correspondent

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Chris Mason reports. The Prime Minister visited

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Kensington this morning to see the remains of the tower herself and

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speak to firefighters. She returned to Downing Street and in the last

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few minutes said this. I am ordering a full public inquiry into this

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disaster. We need to know what happened. We need to have an

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explanation of this. We owe that to the families, to the people who have

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lost loved ones, friends, and the homes in which they lived. The

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Labour leader has also paid a visit. Someone has to be held accountable,

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responsible. We do not want the government to hide this with some

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hollow platitude. Kensington this lunchtime. A community angry and

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demanding an explanation from politicians. Locally and nationally.

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The truth has got to come out. This is a community that is angry and

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demanding an explanation from politicians locally and nationally.

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The construction of the tower block is essentially a series of concrete

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boxes which are the flats. The fire is not supposed to spread from one

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flat to another. It is supposed to begin teamed. It was not. It spread

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and it spread upwards and outside through the cladding.

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In the next half-hour, MPs will have a chance to question a government

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minister about what has happened and there are lots of questions

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demanding answers. Among those, should residents in tower blocks

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continue to be advised to stay put in their flats when fire breaks out.

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Why has a review of Elding regulations covering fire safety

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promised by the government not been published? And why are sprinkler

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system is not in more widespread use? Over the years, just not

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recently, we've made countless speeches saying that sprinklers

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should be fitted for incidents. It is absolute madness that it isn't

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mandatory for sprinklers to automatically befitted in all new

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school buildings and it's impossible to put any amount of money on

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someone's life. A rising death toll and hundreds left homeless. A Prime

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Minister who lost a majority and yet to prove since that she can't

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govern. And now, ever louder voices demanding the government responds

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properly to this tragedy. Theresa May will hope a public enquiry can

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ensure that happens. Chris Mason, BBC News.

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Our Assistant Political Editor Norman Smith is in Westminster.

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There is a lot of anger in this community, not surprisingly. Now the

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Prime Minister has announced this public enquiry? She has, and I

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suspect that was probably inevitable, given the scale of the

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loss of life, the indignation that this could happen in one of the

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richest cities in the world, and also, the clear sense of anger that

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was beginning to emerge about the way officialdom was seen to have

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ignored the seemingly repeated warnings of tenants about the fire

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risks. Anger directed not just at the tenants' management organisation

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and the local council, but very directly at the government. So we

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will now get enquiry which if it follows the course of previous

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enquiries, may well be headed by a judge. We'll have to see. It will

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almost certainly hold its evidence sessions in public and those who

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will give evidence will include a local council, the builders, the

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contractors, but yes, also I expect the tenants and relatives of some of

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the victims. Now that of course will be difficult testimony to hear and

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that will be in public session, and the hope will be to establish

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exactly what happened and the possibility then is you could see

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criminal charges. Then the hope would be finally to come up with a

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coherent and binding set of recommendations to ensure firstly

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that such mistakes are not made again, but also to reassure tenants

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in existing tower blocks and to set a template for future fire safety

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future tower blocks. Norman Smith in Westminster, thank you.

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An emergency number has been set up for anyone concerned for loved ones

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The Casualty Bureau is 0800 0961 233.

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The fire crews are still trying to dampen down the flames, a small cup

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pockets of fire that have been breaking out since we've been on

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air. There's been an awful lot of the praise for the fire crews. 200

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fire crews went into the burning tower and risked their own lives

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trying to get people out. We'll be talking about them later in the

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programme and also about the extraordinary community responsive.

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Now it's back to Simon, in the studio.

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The Prime Minister has called for a full public inquiry

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The number of those confirmed dead is now 17 -

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but police are warning that is expected to rise.

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The faces of some of the many who are still unaccounted for -

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young and old, many of them trapped on the upper floors of the building.

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Stay with BBC News throughout the day for all the developments from

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our correspondents at the scene of the London tower block fire.

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Theresa May will meet political parties from Northern Ireland

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She'll discuss plans to restore power-sharing at Stormont -

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and try to allay growing concerns about her attempt to secure

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the backing of Democratic Unionist MPs in parliament.

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Our Ireland correspondent Chris Buckler is at Stormont for us.

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This could be quite a difficult meeting? Yes, it certainly could. A

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devolved government here collapsed in January, and the attempts to try

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to get power sharing up and running, the clock is ticking on that. The

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deadline is two weeks today. There is a pressure to try and get this

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deal done. Theresa May will meet the parties half an hour apart, one

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after the other, inside Downing Street, and she'll encourage them to

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consult -- to come to some sort of agreement. However a lot of this

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meeting is also about reassurance, because of that very separate

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negotiation that is going on at Westminster between the Tories and

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the DUP. Theresa May of course needs their support to form a government,

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to try to ensure that they have a majority in parliament. The DUP are

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crucial to that. But that has caused some concerns for the parties here,

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particularly Sinn Fein, who have been openly question the -- openly

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questioning, whether the Conservatives, who have presented

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themselves as facilitators in the negotiations, can really been seen

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as impartial in them. The chair for example has seen himself as being,

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James Brokenshire, the Northern Ireland Secretary. There are

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attempts to offer that reassurance and for example the outgoing head of

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the Northern Ireland civil service is now being brought in as a kind of

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mediator. Nonetheless, it is the case that what is happening at

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Westminster could impinge on things here at Stormont. As for what is

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happening in Westminster, well, the DUP say that officially no deal has

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been agreed yet, but it feels like the parties are quite close to

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coming to an agreement. There is some speculation that issues about

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money are concerning the Treasury, how that would work, will Northern

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Ireland get more than other parts of the UK, could that cause problems.

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Those are the kind of discussions that are being had. But it does seem

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clear at this stage now that Theresa May has said that the Queen's speech

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will go ahead on Wednesday that she feels she does have the support of

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the DUP, certainly for her legislative programme going ahead in

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this Parliament. But it's worth stating again, that friendship, that

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partnership at Westminster it doesn't necessarily mean better

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relationships here at Stormont. Chris Buckler, thank you.

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There are more signs today that consumers are cutting

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back on their spending - in reaction to higher

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Official figures showed store prices saw their steepest jump

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With the exception of food, we bought fewer goods in May

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than we did in the same month last year.

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Our economics correspondent Andy Verity is here.

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Up until now, people have seemed to want to spend willy-nilly and

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there's a warning from the Bank of England we could be looking at a

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change in interest rates at some stage. We've seen a slowdown in

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economic growth in the first quarter of the year and it suggests

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consumers are pulling their horns and a little bit, because in the

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past even though wages haven't been rowing as fast as prices, we had a

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long period of that, consumers have still kept up their spending will

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stop retail sales haven't slowed down, they've kept growing. So

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what's different now? The big squeeze in incomes in between

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2011-14, we had other things going on, more people coming into the

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country, they spend money, households had more with two jobs,

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that was more money being spent. Things seem to be slowing down. This

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means the Bank of England have a dilemma. If the economy is slowing

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down you don't want to be raising interest rates, but on the other

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hand, inflation at 2.9% looks close to getting above the Bank of

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England's target rate. It shouldn't go above 3%. Three members of the

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bank's Monetary Policy Committee voted to raise rates, that is the

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most we've had voting for arrays for ten years, so potentially looking at

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an interest rate rise in the next year. Interestingly enough the

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Mansion house speech is tonight and Philip Hammond has just recently

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announced in breaking News that he's pulling out. He said, in view of the

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Grenfell Tower tragedy I've withdrawn from giving the Mansion

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house speech tonight. My thoughts are with the local community. That

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puts Mark Carney, the governor, in an interesting position. If it's

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sensitive to speak, what attitude should he strike? Thank you. Back

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now to save the race with in West London. -- to Sophie Raworth in West

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London. The response from the community

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here has been extraordinary. Within hours of the fire breaking

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out, the streets around here were filled with tables covered

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in food, water and clothes for these people who have lost

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absolutely everything. Some of the community centres

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and sports halls that have been turned into temporary shelters have

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received so many donations they've Tom Burridge reports

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on the volunteers who have dropped This shows you how people here feel.

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Everything donated. A diverse community which cares. It's

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incredible at the moment. Everyone is coming together, more people keep

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coming and helping out, trying to do as much as possible. I heart feels

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for London when I feel all these people come together, helping each

:26:09.:26:12.

other in a time of need. People have given so much it's hard to organise.

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We are inundated with donations of fresh food, fruit, vegetables,

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clothes, toys, you name it. We've got it. Some are giving more than

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belongings. Counselling those whose loved ones have died. They are

:26:26.:26:32.

sobbing and crying. Can you imagine a woman from Ethiopian, where I've

:26:33.:26:36.

been, very religious, she was coming down the main stairway in Grenfell

:26:37.:26:42.

Tower with her 12-year-old daughter and the flames and smoke covered her

:26:43.:26:46.

daughter and she lost her. Other parents were throwing their babies

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out of the window. People round, I live opposite, I just saw flame, but

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people next door the children in the window shouting, help me. A lot of

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children were inside. It's horrific. This is the reception at the local

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sports centre. Now storing and distributing food. Local schools

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here have been touched. Their response is to act. All the local

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schools have been helping. I know my mum spent 14 hours helping yesterday

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take donations in and she said look, they're things, people coming in,

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it's amazing. Helping out offering beds, food, toiletries, clothes,

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whatever we can do, everyone has been helping out and I'm proud of

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how well people have chipped in. Help just keeps on coming. To give

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you a sense of how the community here has reacted, well, they say

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pictures speak louder than words. At a mosque nearby businesses

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delivering for free and people pitching up. This is generosity

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defined. It's so terrible that the situation that's happened and we are

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all just trying to come together to help everybody, so many families

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have nothing now. You know, the little that we have we can pass it

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onto them to make their lives a little bit better. Just around the

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corner from Grenfell Tower, a of messages. What would you write? For

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something so awful it is hard to express in words. Tom Burridge, BBC

:28:27.:28:34.

News, in West London. Incredibly moving, reading some of the messages

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left for the victims of this fire. Our correspondent Richard Galpin is

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therefore as now. Yes, this wall of remembrance, is

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also being called the wall of condolences, has been growing by the

:28:48.:28:51.

hour. We've been here for a little while and they are putting more and

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more panels up, because there are so many people here and have been

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throughout the day, streaming through here, leaving an enormous

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number of messages. Obviously the vast majority are essentially, rest

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in peace, for those who have been killed. But also messages for the

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missing and we can see here one of the posters for this woman, Mariem

:29:13.:29:16.

Elgwahry, who was on the 19th floor and last seen at 2:30am, when the

:29:17.:29:22.

fire broke out, and appealing for any information and phone numbers

:29:23.:29:26.

for people to call, if they have any information about that. Of course,

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there are so many missing people. There are also those messages of

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anger. If I can point you appear it says, jailed those responsible.

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While this community has very much come together, there's a real sense

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of community spirit, there's also a sense of anger about how this fire

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could have happened. Indeed, Richard, thank you.

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More than 200 firefighters tackled this blaze yesterday.

:29:52.:29:52.

They were sent into this building though it was alight

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from top to bottom - not knowing what they'd find

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One firefighter called Mick tweeted a photo of his fire helmet and said,

:29:58.:30:02.

you know it's bad when you're told to write your name on your helmet.

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London Fire Brigade's chief Dany Cotton has heaped praise

:30:06.:30:08.

on her firefighters, the emergency service

:30:09.:30:11.

heroes who did everything they could to save those

:30:12.:30:13.

Early on in the fire, my firefighters tried to reach some

:30:14.:30:30.

I spoke to a crew before I left who had been to the 20th

:30:31.:30:35.

We specifically targeted flats where we were getting calls,

:30:36.:30:39.

As the Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade,

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it was a very stressful and difficult time.

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I was looking at a building engulfed in fire, I knew members

:30:49.:30:50.

of the public were still trapped yet I was committing hundreds

:30:51.:30:53.

of firefighters to a building which to a lot of people

:30:54.:30:57.

My firefighters were desperate to get in there

:30:58.:31:01.

Crew after crew were sent into a very dangerous,

:31:02.:31:08.

very hot and difficult situation because we have a passion to do

:31:09.:31:11.

as much as we could to rescue the people in there.

:31:12.:31:13.

It was a very challenging, very difficult and very traumatic

:31:14.:31:16.

Up to nine of my firefighters suffered minor burns,

:31:17.:31:22.

some heat exhaustion due to the intensity in

:31:23.:31:26.

Some obvious slips and trips over debris falling everywhere.

:31:27.:31:33.

I am more concerned longer term about the mental

:31:34.:31:35.

impact on the people who were here because it was

:31:36.:31:39.

an unprecedented event and people saw and heard things on a scale

:31:40.:31:42.

Going forward, one of my main concerns is the mental health

:31:43.:31:49.

and well-being of my firefighters and doing trauma and care

:31:50.:31:51.

The words of London's Fire Brigade chief, Dany Cotton. Now the weather,

:31:52.:32:09.

with Jay Wynne. Good afternoon. This rainbow was captured in Somerset

:32:10.:32:12.

from a passing shower. One thing will notice today as it will turn

:32:13.:32:15.

that bit fresher and we have sunshine and showers, but not an

:32:16.:32:18.

equal measures. We have the fresh air coming in behind this band of

:32:19.:32:22.

cloud, just moving its way eastwards. You can see the speckling

:32:23.:32:27.

of showers, mostly in Scotland and Northern Ireland. For the bulk of

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England and Wales Cricket Board of fine weather this afternoon. A bit

:32:31.:32:34.

of a breeze but some good spells of sunshine. A lovely afternoon across

:32:35.:32:38.

the south-west, 17-18, still a bit breezy but a good deal of sunshine.

:32:39.:32:41.

A bit of patchy cloud. A lovely afternoon on the south coast. But

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the breeze is there to contend with. Maybe a shower for some parts of

:32:46.:32:49.

south-east of England but most bases fine and dry. Not as warm as

:32:50.:33:02.

yesterday but still 23-24, not too bad for the middle of June. Other

:33:03.:33:04.

teams across northern England, maybe a shower or two but most of the

:33:05.:33:07.

showers are in Central and Scotland. 16-17 in Belfast with some showers

:33:08.:33:10.

moving through on the breeze. Showers are few and far between and

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across Wales and we'll get temperatures in the upper teens. The

:33:15.:33:17.

breeze continues to blow through this evening. One or two showers

:33:18.:33:21.

across Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland. A lot of dry

:33:22.:33:24.

weather overnight. It should be fresher. By Friday morning,

:33:25.:33:29.

temperatures down by a good few degrees in a few places but still

:33:30.:33:32.

12-13 to start the day. Friday will turn into a day of the north-south

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split with the northern half of UK seeing more cloud. Most of the rain

:33:37.:33:40.

confined to the west of Scotland, the north-west of injured. The best

:33:41.:33:43.

of sunshine further south and it will be quite warm, 23-24. 20 odd

:33:44.:33:49.

degrees in Belfast, not too far behind that in Aberdeen. At the

:33:50.:33:54.

start of the weekend high pressure builds in. It will be a bit of

:33:55.:33:57.

breeze and rain in the north-west but most bases on Saturday will be

:33:58.:33:59.

fine with variable cloud, some sunshine and some warmth. We will

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get hotter as we head towards Sunday. Back to you.

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A reminder of our main story this lunchtime.

:34:08.:34:10.

The Prime Minister has called for a full public inquiry

:34:11.:34:12.

The number of those confirmed dead is now 17 but police are warning

:34:13.:34:21.

that is expected to continue to rise. The faces of some of the many

:34:22.:34:28.

who are still unaccounted for, young and old, many of them trapped on the

:34:29.:34:34.

other floors of the building. -- upper floors. So many people still

:34:35.:34:38.

missing, so many questions unanswered. We have continuing

:34:39.:34:41.

coverage on BBC News.

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