04/07/2017

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:00:16. > :00:20.The Government made a pledge to those who lost their homes

:00:21. > :00:22.in the Grenfell fire that they would be rehoused

:00:23. > :00:25.Some families have told this programme that what they've been

:00:26. > :00:29.Tonight, Downing Street says it's trying to get the right balance

:00:30. > :00:32.between sticking to that commitment and giving people what they need.

:00:33. > :00:37.This is the hotel that we were accommodated

:00:38. > :00:45.Sajad has been living in this hotel room since Grenfell fire.

:00:46. > :00:48.He, his mother and sister escaped from the third floor.

:00:49. > :00:51.Same hotel that my neighbours and my mum and my sister have been.

:00:52. > :00:54.In the aftermath of the fire, the Prime Minister promised that

:00:55. > :00:56.every affected family would be offered a good quality,

:00:57. > :01:02.Sajad's family are one of more than 100 households

:01:03. > :01:07.He says they will stay in the hotel until permanent

:01:08. > :01:11.Why wouldn't you accept temporary accommodation?

:01:12. > :01:20.To accept a temporary accommodation, knowing that you are already in one,

:01:21. > :01:30.And people, they just don't want to be moved

:01:31. > :01:35.So, how many people would you say are still living in this block?

:01:36. > :01:37.In this particular area, I know he's there, there,

:01:38. > :01:42.Those living in neighbouring blocks to the tower,

:01:43. > :01:46.some of which are still without hot water and gas, have also been

:01:47. > :01:52.Councillor Beinazir Lasharie has chosen to remain at her home.

:01:53. > :01:55.They have tried to offer me other accommodation,

:01:56. > :01:57.but it's very difficult with children, and you know,

:01:58. > :02:00.I've got to try to look out for them before anything else.

:02:01. > :02:03.She says many people simply don't feel the accommodation that's been

:02:04. > :02:06.put forward is suitable for their needs.

:02:07. > :02:11.I've spoken to people who've said they've been offered stuff

:02:12. > :02:13.which is completely out of the borough, or it's

:02:14. > :02:22.After everything that everyone's been through,

:02:23. > :02:24.to still be moved around and shifted around and fobbed off,

:02:25. > :02:28.So, for many like Sajad, the wait for a home will go

:02:29. > :02:34.Well, tonight, families affected by the tragedy had a meeting

:02:35. > :02:37.with the police officer leading the Met's criminal

:02:38. > :02:49.Here's our home affairs correspondent, Nick Beake.

:02:50. > :02:52.This was the first opportunity that families affected by the fire have

:02:53. > :02:54.had to put some of the many questions they have

:02:55. > :02:56.to the senior police officers leading the investigation.

:02:57. > :02:58.The meeting lasted more than three and a half hours.

:02:59. > :03:02.Many were accompanied by specialist family liaison officers

:03:03. > :03:08.Many people did not want to talk about some of the distressing detail

:03:09. > :03:11.they'd heard inside, but a short time ago,

:03:12. > :03:15.we spoke to one man who lost six members of his family

:03:16. > :03:21.He gave us a sense of what happened inside that meeting.

:03:22. > :03:24.We personally asked, where is our family?

:03:25. > :03:28.We want to know, is our family's bodies still there?

:03:29. > :03:33.Whatever it is, we want to know exactly what it is.

:03:34. > :03:38.And the answers that were coming back was,

:03:39. > :03:42.we don't know, we don't know, we don't know.

:03:43. > :03:44.Talking to some other people who were inside that meeting,

:03:45. > :03:48.it's clear there is a real sense of anger among the families that

:03:49. > :03:54.although Grenfell Tower is a crime scene - the Met have now launched

:03:55. > :03:59.there are, it would seem, no suspects, only witnesses, at this

:04:00. > :04:05.And there is a level of concern that documents may be being destroyed,

:04:06. > :04:07.and families wanted answers from the Metropolitan Police.

:04:08. > :04:10.Of course, Scotland Yard say that this is one of the most

:04:11. > :04:16.complicated investigations they've ever carried out, and they've warned

:04:17. > :04:19.that some of the answers to the questions the families have

:04:20. > :04:21.been demanding may take weeks, or even months, to be able

:04:22. > :04:28.Meanwhile, there's still concern that some of the money raised

:04:29. > :04:30.through donations isn't getting through to those who need it most.

:04:31. > :04:35.So how much HAS been raised for victims and survivors?

:04:36. > :04:38.And what's being done to make sure those working on the ground get it

:04:39. > :04:46.Claudia-Liza Armah has been going through all the figures.

:04:47. > :04:50.So, we already know the Government pledged ?5 million -

:04:51. > :04:54.that works out to around ?5,500 per household.

:04:55. > :04:56.Communities Secretary Sajid Javid has already said that half of people

:04:57. > :04:59.entitled to that pot of money have got that.

:05:00. > :05:02.But what about the charitable donations?

:05:03. > :05:05.Well, there has been a massive amount of fundraising and donations

:05:06. > :05:14.made, and we've been going through all the figures

:05:15. > :05:16.and have estimated that more than ?17 million has been

:05:17. > :05:21.Well, it's come from a number of different charities,

:05:22. > :05:23.crowd funding websites and that Simon Cowell charity single.

:05:24. > :05:28.The largest amount has been raised by The Evening

:05:29. > :05:31.Standard's Dispossessed Fund - that's raised ?5 million.

:05:32. > :05:37.While The Red Cross appeal has raised more than ?4 million.

:05:38. > :05:46.As has the Kensington and Chelsea Foundation.

:05:47. > :05:49.So now we have an idea how much has been raised,

:05:50. > :05:53.how can victims and survivors get access to that money?

:05:54. > :05:55.Well, someone who shed some light on that was Gerald Oppenheim

:05:56. > :05:58.from the London Emergency Trust, one of the charities overseeing

:05:59. > :06:03.If they're next of kin, if they were injured,

:06:04. > :06:06.they need to get in touch either with one of the humanitarian

:06:07. > :06:08.teams on the ground, at the Westway Centre,

:06:09. > :06:10.or, if they have a police family liiaison officer,

:06:11. > :06:14.They'll get a little form to fill in just to tell us

:06:15. > :06:18.who they are and how to pay the money to them.

:06:19. > :06:21.Well, the London Emergency Trust is focusing on people

:06:22. > :06:25.For those who have been displaced because of the fire,

:06:26. > :06:27.they're being advised to get into touch with the Rugby Portobello

:06:28. > :06:29.Trust, among others, which is working closely

:06:30. > :06:40.Police are hunting a dangerous prisoner who was released by mistake

:06:41. > :06:44.just a few months into a nine-year sentence due to a clerical error.

:06:45. > :06:52.25-year-old Ralston Dodd stabbed a man after

:06:53. > :06:54.25-year-old Ralston Dodd stabbed a man three times after

:06:55. > :06:58.The court incorrectly recorded his sentence.

:06:59. > :07:00.The Ministry of Justice says it's urgently

:07:01. > :07:06.The RSPCA says they are a "huge and growing problem".

:07:07. > :07:08.Now, the charity is urging the public to help find those

:07:09. > :07:13.In one case, a dog which had been left to die after being used

:07:14. > :07:16.Yvonne Hall's report does contain some images

:07:17. > :07:19.Found dumped and bleeding to death on a street

:07:20. > :07:23.This shar pei bitch was emaciated, couldn't walk and was suffering

:07:24. > :07:27.from life-threatening eye and womb infections.

:07:28. > :07:29.Her claws had curled round three times -

:07:30. > :07:33.some had grown right through her paws.

:07:34. > :07:35.Vets say she was in excruciating pain.

:07:36. > :07:44.She was literally dripping pus, because she had pyometra,

:07:45. > :07:47.and that is a fatal condition, and that's why the second vet said

:07:48. > :07:57.The dog warden asked us, and we said, yes, let's

:07:58. > :08:03.Glenys, as she's now being called, is recovering

:08:04. > :08:06.at the Rescue Remedies kennels in Surrey.

:08:07. > :08:10.The RSPCA believe she'd been kept for about nine years cramped

:08:11. > :08:13.in a tiny cage and repeatedly used as a breeding machine

:08:14. > :08:19.They estimate she'd had about 60 puppies.

:08:20. > :08:22.Each would have sold for at least ?1,500.

:08:23. > :08:26.These pictures from a raid on a puppy farm show

:08:27. > :08:31.Dead animals are also found in plastic buckets.

:08:32. > :08:33.It's feared these puppies were dumped by a roadside

:08:34. > :08:37.in Hertfordshire when they couldn't be sold.

:08:38. > :08:45.The RSPCA in 2016, we received around about 3,500 calls

:08:46. > :08:49.about puppies coming from places where maybe the conditions

:08:50. > :08:50.aren't good enough, and perhaps from bitches

:08:51. > :08:54.It's a huge problem, it's a growing problem.

:08:55. > :08:56.Glenys is one of the very few lucky ones to survive.

:08:57. > :09:00.Even her tail is starting to curl again.

:09:01. > :09:03.It's now five weeks since Glenys was found dumped bleeding to death

:09:04. > :09:08.As you can see, she's now recovering well.

:09:09. > :09:11.But everyone involved with her care says it's amazing that she survived,

:09:12. > :09:16.the degree of cruelty she was subjected to.

:09:17. > :09:19.And the RSPCA is now urging anyone with any information about Glenys,

:09:20. > :09:32.or any illegal puppy farms, to contact them immediately.

:09:33. > :09:35.I'll say good night now - and leave you with Chris Fawkes

:09:36. > :09:53.Today, we got up to 25 degrees, despite the clouds in the sky.

:09:54. > :09:58.Tomorrow, it's going to be even hotter. For the next few days,

:09:59. > :10:01.temperature is will be about 30. It will be feeling increasingly humid

:10:02. > :10:07.as well. For the moment, outside, the cloud is continuing to break up.

:10:08. > :10:11.Temperatures will only be getting down to about 16 by the end of the

:10:12. > :10:18.night. Tomorrow, a beautiful start to the day. Sunshine to take us

:10:19. > :10:22.through the first part of the morning, a bit of cloud bubbling up

:10:23. > :10:29.in the afternoon but not spoiling the sunshine. And it's going to be a

:10:30. > :10:36.hot one. Temperatures could hit 30 degrees in some places. On Thursday,

:10:37. > :10:41.it looks likely that we will see some thunderstorms moving up from

:10:42. > :10:50.the near continent. In between, some humid sunshine coming through, and

:10:51. > :10:55.similar kind of temperatures. Will the hot spell last? It looks like it

:10:56. > :10:57.will do for another few days yet. We're going to see similar

:10:58. > :11:15.temperatures on Friday, when it should be a similar day.

:11:16. > :11:25.Hot weather is coming back to some parts of the UK over the next few

:11:26. > :11:29.days. The warmth and humidity will be coming back up across the UK. It

:11:30. > :11:38.is England and Wales which will see the higher temperatures. Even the

:11:39. > :11:41.Lake District is going to improve. Today, it was no better than 15,

:11:42. > :11:43.with