0:00:00 > 0:00:00with the tragedy six months on? Joins me now
0:00:12 > 0:00:13Good evening.
0:00:13 > 0:00:14I'm Claudia-Liza Armah.
0:00:14 > 0:00:17We start tonight with more on today's memorial service marking
0:00:17 > 0:00:20six months to the day that a fire ripped through Grenfell Tower,
0:00:20 > 0:00:22claiming 71 lives, including 18 children.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25It was one of the worst tragedies to hit the capital in London's
0:00:25 > 0:00:26modern peacetime history.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28This morning, at St Paul's Cathedral, survivors
0:00:28 > 0:00:35and those who've lost loved ones came together.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39Many here grieved for loved ones, precious people who perished
0:00:39 > 0:00:43on that dreadful night.
0:00:43 > 0:00:49Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts and uncles,
0:00:49 > 0:00:53cousins, sons and daughters.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56Today would have been the first birthday of one of the youngest
0:00:56 > 0:00:59victims of the fire.
0:00:59 > 0:01:09STEEL DRUMS PLAYING "HALLELUJAH".
0:01:13 > 0:01:16In years to come, our hope is that the name
0:01:16 > 0:01:18of Grenfell will not
0:01:18 > 0:01:26just be known as a symbol of sorrow, of grief, or injustice.
0:01:26 > 0:01:30But a symbol of the time we learned a new and better way
0:01:30 > 0:01:37to listen and to love.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41# I see is light and darkness all around.
0:01:41 > 0:01:46# You feel so helpless, you can't see which way to go #.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49I'm glad I was there, it means something to all of us
0:01:49 > 0:01:52and I loved the parts of the service that talked about this
0:01:52 > 0:01:55being a change in the way we approach the way we look
0:01:55 > 0:01:56after each other.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59The windows broke, things were falling to the floor, and then
0:01:59 > 0:02:01in the space of six minutes, the fire had already reached
0:02:01 > 0:02:05six floors above it.
0:02:05 > 0:02:06You could see the smoke.
0:02:06 > 0:02:11It felt as if it wasn't real.
0:02:11 > 0:02:16I was just horrified by what I saw and I just wanted to help.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18Deeply emotional.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22You feel pulled together in the same way that we've pulled together
0:02:22 > 0:02:25in the initial aftermath of the fire.
0:02:25 > 0:02:35I think there's a need for us to share today and to be together.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47The two standout points for me, that made me feel tearful,
0:02:47 > 0:02:52were when the Muslim choir, the Muslim girls sang.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54Those words were very poignant and the moment
0:02:54 > 0:02:58when the schoolchildren from the various primary schools
0:02:58 > 0:03:03in the area scattered green hearts around to the song of 'Somewhere'
0:03:03 > 0:03:05from West Side Story.
0:03:05 > 0:03:15Those were really, really moving moments for me.
0:03:17 > 0:03:22We trust that this service today is an assurance that the families
0:03:22 > 0:03:26most deeply affected by this tragedy are also not
0:03:26 > 0:03:31forgotten by our nation, by those here in this cathedral,
0:03:31 > 0:03:40and by those who watch and listen around the country today.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42Since the tragedy, the community in North Kensington
0:03:42 > 0:03:46has come together in many ways, but that night lives were fractured.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48Many people lost more than one member of their family, and some
0:03:49 > 0:03:50of those affected were children.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53Katharine Carpenter has been to find out how they've been coping,
0:03:53 > 0:03:59and about the help that's available to them.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01There's plenty of pre-Christmas excitement at the Harrow youth
0:04:01 > 0:04:03club's party, but children like 11-year-old Charlie sometimes
0:04:03 > 0:04:07struggle to celebrate.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10He had two friends in Grenfell Tower.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13One escaped, the other didn't.
0:04:13 > 0:04:17I just think about the people who were lost in the fire and how
0:04:17 > 0:04:20they didn't really deserve it.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23Because some people were quite young, they had their whole lives
0:04:23 > 0:04:27ahead of them and they all of a sudden are not there any more.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29Just gone.
0:04:29 > 0:04:34Foremost in his mind, Fatima, who he sat next to in maths.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37She died with her two sisters, her parents and grandmother.
0:04:37 > 0:04:41Like other children, he finds seeing the tower a constant
0:04:41 > 0:04:43reminder of what happened.
0:04:43 > 0:04:48In school, all children just watching it and everyone was crying,
0:04:48 > 0:04:50because most people, a whole family
0:04:50 > 0:04:54from our school, died.
0:04:54 > 0:05:01I just talk to my friends and they are very supportive about it.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03Of course, the young people enjoying the party inside have got very
0:05:03 > 0:05:06different ways of dealing with what's happened.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09I spoke to one mum who told me she initially turned down the offer
0:05:09 > 0:05:11of counselling for her son because she didn't
0:05:11 > 0:05:12think he needed it.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15It's only now, six months on, that she's trying to find him
0:05:15 > 0:05:16someone to speak to.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18But like many others, she wishes the signposts
0:05:18 > 0:05:23as to where to find that help were much clearer.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26For us who are on a face-to-face basis with the young people that
0:05:26 > 0:05:29access our services, and I know they need more support
0:05:29 > 0:05:33and help in what they are actually going through.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36It seems the focus is only on the parents, survivors,
0:05:36 > 0:05:39or if you haven't come from a certain part of Grenfell,
0:05:39 > 0:05:42then you are deemed as maybe second in line to any services
0:05:42 > 0:05:45and stuff like that.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48But helping this community has been a huge task for the local NHS Trust.
0:05:48 > 0:05:52It's already seen more than 1800 people since the fire.
0:05:52 > 0:05:57936 adults have been identified as being in urgent need of treatment
0:05:57 > 0:05:59for post-traumatic stress disorder.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03And 191 children and young people have been referred
0:06:03 > 0:06:05for mental health treatment.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08More psychologists are still needed to help.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11I think we are going round, knocking on doors.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13We are trying to have a presence in all of the community
0:06:13 > 0:06:16centres we can think of.
0:06:16 > 0:06:20We have been speaking with other professionals.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23It might be that Tom goes to their GP and wants access
0:06:23 > 0:06:26to help, so the GP knows how to get them in touch with services.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29And it's trying to create a network, I guess, of different support,
0:06:29 > 0:06:33because different people might need different things at different times.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36For Michael, it's this painting which brings the rawest emotion.
0:06:36 > 0:06:40It pictures one of the Harrow club members who died in Grenfell Tower.
0:06:40 > 0:06:44As much as we would like to forget Grenfell and put a line under it,
0:06:44 > 0:06:49it's never going to happen.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52So we're going to put it up and have an opening for it and make
0:06:52 > 0:06:54sure his life is celebrated.
0:06:54 > 0:06:56Because we love him.
0:06:56 > 0:07:04Top boy, he really was.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07To other news now, and Boris Johnson has been called before
0:07:07 > 0:07:12the London Assembly to give evidence on the failed Garden Bridge project.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14The Assembly has used legal powers to demand he attends.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16It's the the first time such measures have been
0:07:16 > 0:07:19used on a former mayor, and comes after the Foreign
0:07:19 > 0:07:21Secretary declined to speak to an earlier inquiry.
0:07:21 > 0:07:26A spokesperson for Mr Johnson says a new hearing would be "pointless".
0:07:26 > 0:07:29Now to a family mystery going back more than 70 years.
0:07:29 > 0:07:33In 1943, a two-week-old baby boy was abandoned in a box on the steps
0:07:33 > 0:07:35of the BBC in London.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38Now aged 74, Robin King has spent most of his life wondering
0:07:38 > 0:07:41who abandoned him, and why.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44He was discovered by a BBC studio manager, and this week
0:07:44 > 0:07:45the two were reunited.
0:07:45 > 0:07:49Steve Knibbs was there.
0:07:49 > 0:07:50Amazing.
0:07:50 > 0:07:51Incredible.
0:07:51 > 0:07:52You're that baby!
0:07:52 > 0:07:55A reunion 74 years apart, as Trevor Hill meets the contents
0:07:55 > 0:07:58of a box he discovered outside the BBC in 1943, that today,
0:07:58 > 0:08:02is 74-year-old Robin King.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04You wouldn't fit into that little box.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07No, not now.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10In 1943, BBC Broadcasting House had been bombed, so be overseas service
0:08:10 > 0:08:17was set up in the Peter Robinson department store on Oxford Street.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20And one morning, as Trevor turned up for work, he found a box outside.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22So you were wrapped in a blanket inside the box.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25Did you worry it might be a bomb or something?
0:08:25 > 0:08:30Exactly, we've pretty sure it was.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33Particularly when it moved slightly, we thought it was a timer.
0:08:33 > 0:08:37Luckily I wasn't blown up.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40Thankfully, it was just Robin in the box and aged just two weeks,
0:08:40 > 0:08:41he became a foundling.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44He was named Robin Peters after the department store
0:08:44 > 0:08:47where he was found and eventually adopted at the age of four.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50These are my biological parents.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53After decades of searching, last year, Robin's daughter
0:08:53 > 0:08:55traced his biological parents to Canada with the help
0:08:55 > 0:08:57of a DNA expert.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59They were Douglas and Agnes Jones.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02He was in the Royal Canadian Air Force, working at a radio training
0:09:02 > 0:09:05school in South Kensington.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07He met and married Agnes in Glasgow.
0:09:07 > 0:09:11It's a bit of a mystery because it seems very difficult for him
0:09:11 > 0:09:15or my mother to actually leave a box in that position at that
0:09:15 > 0:09:18particular time during the war when there was a lot
0:09:18 > 0:09:20of security worries.
0:09:20 > 0:09:25So that doesn't make sense to me.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27At least today, a few more pieces of Robin's early life
0:09:27 > 0:09:32have been filled in.
0:09:32 > 0:09:33It's been completely, for me, a magical day.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36A day that I never thought would exist and I never,
0:09:36 > 0:09:46ever imagined that I would get to meet the contents of that box.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48He's still desperate to know why he was left
0:09:48 > 0:09:50outside the BBC in 1943, but grateful, of course,
0:09:50 > 0:09:57to have been found by Trevor.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00That's it from me, but let's see how the weather's looking
0:10:00 > 0:10:02with Tomasz Schafernaker.
0:10:02 > 0:10:06with Tomasz Schafernaker.
0:10:06 > 0:10:11The cold snap is not quite over yet. It's still pretty chilly out there,
0:10:11 > 0:10:15for example temperatures got up to 6 degrees and to be honest it's not
0:10:15 > 0:10:18going to be any colder or warmer tomorrow, but one thing you will
0:10:18 > 0:10:22notice, there's going to be more cloud and it will be quite damp. On
0:10:22 > 0:10:26the face of it it will not feel is nice. It will feel a bit worse.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29Tonight, temperatures dipping close to freezing and there might be some
0:10:29 > 0:10:40icy patches first thing in the morning.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48You can see some showers coming through. Temperatures around
0:10:48 > 0:10:51freezing, a risk of a little bit of ice enough here and there. A fair
0:10:51 > 0:10:53amount of cloud tomorrow. The temperature is still struggling, 6-4
0:10:53 > 0:10:55degrees in High Wycombe. This is Saturday morning. I really chilly
0:10:55 > 0:10:58start to Saturday, but a beautiful winter's day, around 6 degrees. The
0:10:58 > 0:11:00best day of the weekend I think is going to be