25/06/2017 London News

I'm Asad Ahmad. for the news where you are.

So the focus on cladding on high-rise buildings

continues across London, but so do questions about the way

the deadly fire at Grenfell Tower was initially handled by Kensington

Plans were already in place to deal with a major emergency in London,

but they weren't acted upon, as our Political Editor,

Why didn't help kick in immediately for those who survived,

It took 48 hours for the council, Kensington Chelsea, to call for

The former civil servant who helped set up London's

emergency response procedures, says they are exemplary on paper.

It was the system of triggering them which

I think there'll have to be a better system in place,

one where Central Government might have to intervene early on and other

boroughs are allowed to intervene early on to ask very serious

questions, to say, do you want help with sending it now?

With these events you should throw the

resources at it early and get ahead of it.

By the time you have failed to do that, it is too late.

But financial help and re-housing plans

Quite rightly, one of the things we'll have

to look at is maybe it should be the Government

But the Government has now, later in the day,

but absolutely now on top of us, and absolutely funnelling

And one of the things that I think will also come out of

this inquiry is make sure that we look at

fire regulations in the

As tenants in four Camden blocks spent a second night away

from their homes, at least half a dozen of London's

councils are known to have some cladding problems.

And the inspections of the last week have

The cladding issue is being inspected, I

But we had a fire in my constituency yesterday,

in a lower rise building, without cladding and I'm really

concerned that the Government needs to step up

the inspections and support across blocks that could have wider issues.

No-one's quite clear yet what Grenfell Tower

And as investigations continue across London boroughs

into cladding around buildings, Tara Welsh, has been to Wandsworth,

where a high-rise there has failed a test by Government

You can see the Wembley arch, and slightly to the right

you actually can see the building where the fire took place...

cladding was put on Jose's building when it was refurbished.

It's now been tested and doesn't meet current fire-safety standards.

To me, at the moment, I don't feel that worried,

because obviously if the fire brigade come in,

does meet requirements, except the outside, then we just

What I'm hoping for is that, by Monday, I will see

scaffolding going up, and the council say,

The council have told us that in response to the findings,

a specialist team from the Fire Brigade have checked

things like fire doors, electrical cupboards and dry risers,

and they say they found there is no reason for people to move out.

Wandsworth Council said this is different to Camden -

tower blocks were evacuated there when officers found

problems with insulation, gas pipes and fire doors,

Here, the council says it's been confirmed there

is no undue risk to residents, but the cladding will be removed

as soon as possible, and fire marshals will be stationed here.

I find it quite awful, actually, because there's a lot of old people

that live in the block, single mums with children, you know,

and it's quite devastating, actually, to think all

I think that the concern for vulnerable people,

those trying to get down a single staircase in a panic situation,

is going to be something quite unnerving to a lot of people here.

But I think there's also a certain calmness the council put in place,

elements of due diligence, fire watch et cetera

Cladding on blocks from seven London boroughs have now failed

Government tests as consequences of the Grenfell Tower

Dry, sunny and very warm - but not too hot for most.

Top temperature of 24 Celsius in town and slightly cooler

That's it from the BBC London weekend team.

I hope you stay with us during the week.

Good evening. We start with a look at the big picture, which is a broad

area of low pressure moving from our shores. The winds ease down as the

isobars move apart. We look at the west for the next area of low

pressure. So, it is quieter overnight.