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Despite the surge of community support after the Grenfell Tower fire, the failure of the local council and the government to respond appropriately has caused anger, offence and further suffering.
Warnings were loud and clear.
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A former BBC special correspondent looks at why fundamental lessons weren’t learnt after the deadly Lakanal Fire that he investigated in 2009.
Picking apart a tragic story.
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Perhaps there might at least now be a pause on further deregulation when it comes to buildings in the UK
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There are physical, cultural and legal reasons why fire prevention measures didn’t avert the tragedy at the Grenfell Tower – and other buildings are still at risk.
Public housing tenants are much more likely than renters in other sectors to struggle to get repair and maintenance done.
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Grenfell Tower residents tragically got the world’s attention only after a disastrous fire. So what would public housing residents in Australia say about their living conditions?
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A lesson in taking from the rich to give to the poor.
The aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire.
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We asked two experts to examine what the buildling regulations say.
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The tangled web of responsibility for London’s council estates could cloud investigations into the Grenfell Tower fire.
Those responsible must be held to account.
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The investigation into the Hillsborough disaster took a long and twisted path – the government must learn from its mistakes.
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Portugal’s wildfire has killed 64 people. Yet, as with Grenfell Tower in London, the risk of such a blaze was foreseeable.
Residents near the burnt-out Grenfell Tower display a sign that expresses their anger at being marginalised and ignored.
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Marginal people become resourceless, invisible to public policies, and disempowered in public life. This increases their vulnerability to disaster.
Grenfell Tower: a “preventable accident”.
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Fire has always affected poorer communities more; to understand why, public authorities need to get better at listening to the people they serve.
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No one party is responsible for the disaster: local or national, Labour or Conservative – they all are.
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Amid calls for arrests, a law expert explains what the offence actually entails.
Don’t look away.
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Readers and viewers the world over are becoming numb to catastrophe and suffering. They must not look away.
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There are three key principles: prevent risk, evacuate users and minimise damage – in that order.
Tragedy.
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As fire tore through Grenfell Tower, I witnessed the complete and terrible destruction of 120 homes just like the one I grew up in.
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Massive damage and suffering was caused when a London tower block became an inferno.