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That's all from the BBC News at Six so it's goodbye from me -

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Flammable cladding is being removed from this estate in Camden.

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We've learnt there'll be 24 hour fire safety

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How long is it going to take, we don't know, but the council

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is working as fast it can, you can't just snap your

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We're out with another London authority now carrying out

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All board the new Crossrail trains - as passengers get a first chance

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Are you a big train fan? Yes.

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It's just nice to see the kind of trains will be able to

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And shimmering in the summer sun - this year's Serpentine pavillion

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brings a touch of Africa to the capital.

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Good evening, welcome to BBC London News with me, Riz Lateef.

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First tonight: 24 hour patrols will be set up at the Camden housing

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development which is now known to have used flammable cladding

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Council Officials in the borough have confirmed that they are to

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remove cladding from five blocks on the Chalcots Estate.

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Until that's done fire wardens will work around

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the clock to ensure that residents are safe.

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Katharine Carpenter has spent the day there and joins us now.

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Yes, I am outside Swiss Cottage library. It has just opened its

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doors between camping counsel and fire safety experts and local

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residents, a hasty arrangement after it was confirmed today that the very

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similar cladding used to grant full tower was used here on the estate,

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and unsurprisingly it has caused anxiety here, and a certain amount

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of anger, too, many frustrated that what they suspected was the case has

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only been just confirmed now, a number of worried faces coming and

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going. It has been busy here today because we have had inspectors on

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site, some checking white goods, we know there is 24-hour security

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patrols bringing in, the area has become a hive of activity and a

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point of focus both by the media and the country at large.

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So far just a few panels on the Chalcot estate in Camden have

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The results have prompted the council to get rid of them all.

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This estate was refurbished a decade ago.

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It's now emerged that the cladding contains similar chemicals to those

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A lot of residents are a bit worried about it. Sprinklers and fire alarms

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and opening hours, we only have one staircase to go down. No fire

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alarms, no sprinklers. People are striving for fire extinguishers as

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well. Locals were sent a letter

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this morning explaining One thing we were always asking

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about as fire safety. Fire safety on fire safety, and fire safety. We

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asked for fire safety, fire alarms, sprinklers, all those things do

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actually have really active fire safety systems. We ended up with

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nothing, we ended up with a building that was clad that was supposed to

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be more safe than what we had before and we were sold that it was more

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safe. There are key differences with the installation.

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The council leader has been before the cameras today,

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Her teams now checkingh corridors and stairwells

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And checking electrical goods in all the blocks.

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She says the council is also seeking legal advice...

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Saying the cladding was not what it ordered ...

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Why would you expect does not have picked up if it was not based

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litigation you asked for? I don't think we would have any reason to

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need to take these panels down to an independent test centre and see if

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they'd burn. We thought we were working with reputable companies and

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thought that what we had was specified, and we feel let down it

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not the case. Bat it is not the case. We need to examine every part

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of this. We need to ask many question to the Council, the

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situation where you are spelling lots of money on re-cladding the

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building. And we need to investigate every part of this process and white

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out what happened. The mayor today urged other councils

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to step up their checks on tower We are speaking to other councils

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across London and and the government has encouraged the acceleration of

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these jacks, the London Fire Brigade is doing these checks, we have to

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make sure every single tower block is safe. If it is the place that

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cladding has been use we make them safe.

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More money has been promised by government to remove any

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Camden is holding meetings with its local residents to reassure

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Well, as I said that meeting is about to get under way, to resident

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asking questions are Nigel Rumble. What are you hoping to get out of

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the meeting tonight? We are all hoping to get, and what I am hoping

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to find out in the meeting is exactly how Camden promises to

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deliver. Chatting your. As you can see there's a lot of anger here at

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the moment and that is to be expected. What I hope to get out of

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the meeting and I'm sure everybody else does is see how Camden can

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deliver the solutions they are proposing to replace all be cladding

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in a timely fashion, weeks not months or years, and is to get fire

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safety improved straightaway. And assurances that this sort of thing

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can never happen again on other, future types of building

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constructions. Romcom if I can bring you in, you have a young son living

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with you in your property. How concerned are you for him at the

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moment until this is altered out? I am busy concern from some blackboard

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of you but the important thing is it's on the ground floor, not the

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top floor where specially I couldn't get out. So yes, I am still worried

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but when you have no fire alarm you don't know what's happening, you're

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only could be woken up if there is a commotion and fire, and that is one

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of the things that you think I am not going to wake up, you know what

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I mean? Are you reassured by the measures the Council are bringing in

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today? I think they are doing what they can, trying to do what they can

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but to me rushing things and not giving us the information, the most

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important thing is you have two inform the people within the block

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what your measures are, none of that has happened as we speak. Just

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finally, I know you are a leaseholder and you are concerned

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about having paid at money for the refurb which now might have to take

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down? The figure was 42,000 for what I paid, plus service charges each

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year for different parts of the building that we have to maintain.

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I'm concerned they have no legal standing to charge me again because

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they have charge me already. That would be liable for their own

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measures to put this right themselves because they haven't

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signed off on the documentation on their cladding. Obviously many of

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those things are still to be investigated and one of the

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questions probably to be raised in the meeting tonight. Back to you.

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But what about reassuring the thousands of tenants living

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Our political editor Tim Donovan joined one council housing

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Help make sure you're right. On a mission of reassurance. We are also

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telling people how to be fire safety in your own homes, have you got a

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smoke alarm? You have two? Why is neither one thing above all on

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people but minds. When we walk around, as they are talking about

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cladding. Is this new cladding is so inert you could put it on a bonfire

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and it wouldn't burn. But it the plastic in between it. The good news

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in Tower Hamlets is we have been putting cladding on the rocks in the

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last years without that sort of material. And that includes the

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block itself, in the middle of having cladding put on it, the

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council is relieved the right material has been used. It is

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reassuring. That is hardly the only issue troubling tenants. Are lot of

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people are talking about the staying put policy. Should you stay where

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you are? After what has happened in that building. As long as everybody

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tells me it stay put, I'm going out! And let's just examine that. Nobody

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got save the last time. I don't detect any of my residents to

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blindly follow advice like that. What is the right thing to do, then?

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Here are protocols are clearly needed. I am still worried, looking

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after my children can I do know how I would go down ten stairs if God

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forbid what happened in that building. Over the last year the

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council had been reviewing and upgrading its fire assessment across

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the borough. We need to make sure really that those are put back,

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then. Aid never found to have removed the fire door from their

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kitchen. The kitchen itself needs to hold the fire back at base the rest

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of the property is a safe haven. Marcella moved here in November and

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now has deepened the door back. Did you have any idea it was important

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to have a door round your kitchen? No, no, when we had an inspection,

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they kind of said yes, you have removed that will stop buying. 'S

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feelings are high on the 16th floor. You have to be responsible now. You

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have to keep an eye on electricity, when you leave the house, you have

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to be so mindful but it is another 300 families who needs to be

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mindful. We are in the same building. Refurbishment here is

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nearly complete. If the council fully content? Following Grenfell we

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are looking again, and honestly that has debuted as public enquiry but we

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are being asked by a lot of residents about sprinkler systems in

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tall buildings. What are you saying to them, then? We haven't got them

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but we have them in bits of the building, so the bin store which is

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vulnerable place, that has a springer system. Are you thinking

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about billing and elsewhere? I think it is a sound idea. So much could

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come under review now that's tenants in high-rise blocks here as across

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the capital are waiting eagerly for answers.

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Joining me now is Arnold Tarling, who's a fire safety expert.

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People right across London, rightly concerned they want assurances that

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the homes are safe. Does what the government's

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announcement today, No, I don't. Basically all they are

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looking at is the housing side. But it is not just a product that is

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placed in houses. What about your school, your hospital, leisure

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centre, the place where you work? That is clad will stop do you know

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if that is the same material? How do you know? The problems with fire

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safety are much deeper than that. This is the tip of the iceberg. Why

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is it allowed this kind of cladding material, why was it allowed to be

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used here when it is banned in some other countries? For that you have

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to ask the advisers to government, the people who advise the ministers.

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You have ministers there, they don't know anything about building the mad

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they don't know anything about building regulations. They rely upon

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their advisers. They are the people to ask. Would you have hoped to have

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banned this? I would have thought they would have banned it long ago.

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In fact it was banned in London under the old 1935 building act,

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these materials would never have been allowed, we learned from the

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great Fire of London, which stopped the incendiaries in the Second World

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War turning the whole of the London into a huge fireball. Let us pick up

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on the concerns of the residents that we had in both of those reports

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at the top of our programme. Should residents in those buildings be

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demanding to be moved out until their safety can be guaranteed, do

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you think? Of course they should. They should be decanting these

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properties straight straightaway, getting large families with children

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out of the property, getting the people who are disabled out of the

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properties, and if you look at the rate at which that fire spread, and

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you think that fire wardens will get everybody out and wake them up? The

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fire wardens may well end up dying in a property that goes up in the

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same way. We actually have pictures where you were testing the material.

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I think you were with one of our reporters last week and you were

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testing the material so you would not feel comfortable living in a

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building that had this kind of cladding? Well, the material I was

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testing was slightly different but it is commonly used in insulation

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and it is put in around every single replacement windows scheme I know,

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it is called polyurethanes. What we have in this building is

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polyethylene, a thermoplastic moulting at a. Both are bad, both

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give off toxic fumes, and both spread fire rapidly, and these have

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been built into buildings and these products would never have been

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allowed to have the London building act not been removed. Are you

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suggesting what is needed is a complete overhaul of current

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building regulations, because what we have been hearing over the past

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week is that how buildings are maintained, refurbished, there is a

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lot of third-party contractors involved, it is subcontracted...

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Where does that sort of responsibility and those checks come

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in and like? The response abilities and checks have been done away with,

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architects used to be on site, clerk of works on site, people who knew

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what they were doing. We used to have the building inspector who was

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got rid of Wendy GLC went. The checks and balances that were built

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up by the Victorians, and the people who followed them have all been

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stripped away. They have all gone, and we need to basics. Things that

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we knew in the past and now ignore. OK, Arnold, so much to talk about

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but for now we will leave it there. Thank you indeed for your time.

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Well, we approached the government for an intrview on this important

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issue for Londoners living in towerblocks...

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But neither the Secretary of State for Communities

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and Local Government Sajid Javid, or the Housing Minister Alok Sharma

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You're watching BBC London News, still to come tonight:

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Brixton honours the African and Caribbean troops who fought during

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the first and second world Wars. And a slice of Africa arrives in Hyde

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Park, is summer's Serpentine Pavilion.

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A Surrey NHS Trust has been fined for safety failings

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in relation to the death of a mentally ill patient.

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20-year-old Adam Withers died after falling from a chimney

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in the grounds of Epsom hospital in 2014.

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Michael Buchanan has the details and joins us

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Yes, indeed. Adam Withers had no previous history of mental health

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problems but in the spring of 2014 he became seriously ill and was

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taken to the Langley unit run by the Surrey and Borders partnership

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mental health trust in the grounds of absent General Hospital. One

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evening in May of 2014 Adam went into courtyard, climbed up onto the

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roof of a low-level building nearby which then gave him access to a

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maintenance ladder that had been propped against a 130 foot

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industrial chimney on the grounds of the hospital. He then climb to the

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top of the chimney and in a distressed state of mind felled to

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his death. Some of the horror was actually watched by his mother and

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his twin sister who were visiting and the hospital at the time. The

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Health and Safety Executive prosecuted the Surrey and Borders

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partnership over safety failings because the trust had been warned

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going back as far as 2012 that this route that Adam had taken to get to

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the chimney was well-known, getting onto the roof of this building had

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been repeatedly warned that this was a way that patients could abscond.

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The trust pleaded guilty, today, and win the past hour I been fined

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?300,000. They haven't responded to that fine but the Langley unit that

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Adam was at has since been closed. They've been hailed

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as the future of rail travel - and today, passengers got a first

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glimpse of the new trains on Crossrail - or the

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Elizabeth Line as it The first of the 66-train

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fleet went into service between Liverpool Street

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and Shenfield - which is just one area hoping

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to benefit from faster more reliable The first Elizabeth

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line train draws in, After a few final checks,

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and fan photos, it's ready

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to go into service. Capable of carrying

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1,500 passengers, and with better efficiency,

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journeys will be quicker, too. Going to make your life

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easier, hopefully? Absolutely.

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I hope so. I've been travelling

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on these trains for years and they're always just really

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run down and old and... Well, air conditioning makes

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a difference, today. Sheila's son will be driving one

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of the 66 new trains in the fleet.

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I'm happy for him. Are you proud of him?

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Yes, of course I am. A new train has brought the spotters

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out two, of all ages. Yes, I have been for

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quite a while, now. So, I live in Romford,

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so right in the heart of the line, really, and

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over the last couple trains being tested and all

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the improvement works kind Been disrupted for so long

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in London is just nice to see what kind of trains we'll be able

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to get into once it opens. And this is what they

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are trying to improve, just one commuter service

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elsewhere in London today. Well, as you're experiencing,

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you've got your jacket on, so have I, it's a warm day

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in London, another warm day. This is air cooled,

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there is proper passenger Visual displays as well as public

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address announcements. Great, clean seats and

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configurations, through carriages that give that sense

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of space as well so this is going to Of course, this is also good

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news for Shenfield, it The journey time will be quicker

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so it should be good for business. I do think it will be

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good, bringing more people in, hopefully

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it will be all right. Put you on the map?

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Yes, it will do. There's too much congestion,

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for a little village, if This area sort of normally

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would have been sort of stockbrokers which were going into the city,

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but the Crossrail is obviously opening up over to the west London

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side of things so we've had more buyers

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from sort of Islington, following. The full route

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through central London should be operating

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from December next year. Next: honouring of the some

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two million black soldiers who fought for Britain in the First

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and Second World Wars. The UK's first memorial to African

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and Caribbean heroes of the conflicts has been

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unveiled in Brixton. Hundreds of people turned up in

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Windrush Square to honour the African and Caribbean men and women

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who served in the two world wars and see the memorial unveiled. APPLAUSE

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92-year-old Alan Wilmot was in the royal Navy during World War II and

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was glad to have made it to the ceremony will stop today is a

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special day in my life because I didn't dream that I would be around

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to see things like this happening. You know, because years ago nothing

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was done to more or less make it known the contribution that was made

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by the African west Indian and Indian servicemen. Many came to

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honour and remember their loved ones and were just believe they were

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being recognised at last. One of the reasons it has taken 100 years to

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remember this is because in 1919 when there was a victory margin

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London, African and Caribbean 's went invited and so they were

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written out of the history of the First World War. A great day for

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black people all over England. To see this happening because a lot of

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us did not know that black people fought in the war, especially from

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way back, the First World War. Victor Ponta like uncle served in

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the Royal air Force in the Second World War and the 82-year-old made a

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special journey to be in Brixton today. I have flown from Jamaica to

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be here today. To get this opportunity to let people know that

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the parts of the Jamaicans have played in the Second World War. The

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ceremony included an African inspired parade with Carnival

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puppets and stilt-walkers. Before dignitaries laid wreaths for the

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fallen. This is overdue, recognition of a huge part that African and

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Caribbean soldiers and labourers played in both world wars, we should

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have done this years ago. It is hoped the memorial will ensure the

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young African and Caribbean people never forget the contributions that

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forefathers had in the two world wars.

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It's inspired by the artist's African heritage and based on a tree

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used as a meeting place in his native village.

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Francis K r has brought a piece of Burkina Faso to London for this

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It opens on Friday and Emilia Papodopoulos has

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A dazzling African canopy in the heart of central London. This year's

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Serpentine Pavilion motors blends art and space. Francis K r was

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inspired by trees in his native Burkina Faso, arriving from the

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shade, and the blue paint is symbolic. The blue paint was on the

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best clothes that you have and in Mike colchicum NVQ blue is that

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colour. Yes, I wanted to show myself with a best horror and this is this.

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The past two years have seen an eclectic mix of the gallery's front

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transformed. It was earned their woven bats overwhelming filming of

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honour. I am nervous, it is London, it is Kensington Park committed the

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Serpentine. It is unbelievable but I succeeded, I was able to do it! Yes!

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There are many different elements to destructor, the main is the central

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courtyard, almost like it was designed for the British summer in

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mind because when it rains, which it can do quite often, the rain will

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funnel through this central part here, to create a waterfall. I want

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the visitor to arrive and then feel the elements. Be protected by them,

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but be exposed to them, to have a very intense feeling. It is for

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everyone, it is somehow, it is very open, people can find out the way

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they use it, it isn't prescriptive soap children will find a different

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use from adults. It opens from tomorrow until October and no matter

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what great British weather has in store, its design means it is always

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ready to welcome visitors. Spectacular! It has cooled down a

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little bit, relatively, I should say. Let's check on the weather with

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Ben Rich. What a difference a Day makes. Yesterday we were in extreme

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heat with some very high temperatures, in

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fact the hottest June date since 1976. Today in Hounslow, dawn was

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like this with speckled clouds, the first sign of what was to come

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coming thickening clouds, and then for some of us not all,

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thunderstorms will stop this line of storms worked from west to east,

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quite a lot of lightning but some places avoiding it and staying

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completely dry. Once the line of storm had passed through, things

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cleared up again, more cloud, some sunshine, but the big difference

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what the temperature dropped. Yesterday at Heathrow, 35, down to

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24 today. That story was repeated across the area, one degree warmer

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air however was the Essex coast, the shelter provided with the coast.

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Tonight, cooler, comfortable for sleeping, 14 or 15 degrees, a mild

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or warm night but it will feel quite different to the ones we have

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recently had. Tamara actually not a bad day, again a fair amount of

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cloud but I am expecting that to break up at times to give some

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spells, of sunshine, once again that cooler feel, 22-24 . A bit of a

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breeze as well which I should imagine will be refreshing. Friday,

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a quiet night, but they change into Saturday morning, a weather front is

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approaching from the north-west, and rather than clearing cleanly through

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this is actually going to hang around for a while on Saturday

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morning so Saturday could well start off cloudy with splashes of rain at

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time, the rain probably liked and patchy but clearing up and

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brightening up into the afternoon on Saturday, temperatures still

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sticking that cooler fresher feel, as we go on into Sunday. Lots of dry

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weather around, temperatures again back down into the 20s.

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Still warm! Then, thank you very much.

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The Prime Minister has said around 600 high rises across England

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are using similar cladding to Grenfell Tower.

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Urgent tests have so far confirmed that seven tower blocks are covered

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in combustible cladding in four local authorities.

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Theresa May has travelled to Brussels for a European summit

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to discuss Brexit and ways to protect the rights of EU

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citizens living away from their home countries.

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Asad will be back later though during the ten o'clock news.

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From all the team here, thanks for watching and do

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Across the country, 11 million people

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But how would their landlords manage living as tenants?

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It's helped me appreciate that decisions we make

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The Week The Landlords Moved In starts:

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Well, I'm not nice. And I see you, mate.

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