Property tycoon who filmed model Grenfell Tower on bonfire avoids jail
A millionaire property developer who filmed a model of the Grenfell Tower burning on a bonfire has received a suspended prison sentence, after a magistrate described it…
This memoir will do for disaster response what This Is Going to Hurt did for medicine
After an explosion or a crash, a flood or a fire – after any disaster with mass fatalities caused by accident, negligence or terrorism – there are bodies…
‘Another Grenfell is inevitable’: are London’s expensive new tower blocks safe?
The Government is currently reviewing rules on high-rise blocks, but calls are growing for faster action to prevent what Andy Slaughter, MP for Hammersmith and Shepherd’s Bush,…
Memorial, demolition or vertical forest: the fight for the future of Grenfell Tower
The idea originated in part from Marcio Gomes, 42, an IT technician who lived for a decade on the 21st floor of Grenfell with his wife, Andreia,…
Michael Gove urges Ulster to end Kingspan sponsorship deal over role in Grenfell Tower disaster
Michael Gove has urged Ulster Rugby to follow the Mercedes Formula One team in ending their partnership with Kingspan due to the firm’s role in the Grenfell…
Mercedes end £3m sponsorship deal with Kingspan amid outrage from Grenfell Tower victims
Sir Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes team have scrapped their £3million-a-year sponsorship deal with Kingspan following major backlash from victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster. The Formula 1 giants…
Lewis Hamilton urged to condemn Mercedes’ sponsorship deal with Grenfell Tower cladding firm
Lewis Hamilton has been urged by survivors of the Grenfell Tower disaster to condemn his own Mercedes team after they refused to bow to public pressure and…
Fire chief who quit over Grenfell says lessons from disasters overseas were not learned
Ms Cotton said Graham Ellis, another fire chief at the LFB, “used to monitor, through an international forum, some of the operational incidents that were occurring”. She…