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...As his reporting on the Grenfell Tower fire for the London Review of Books showed, O’Hagan doesn’t shy away from challenging subjects....
...She outlined some of the concerns in a briefing paper entitled “Floating Grenfell?”, named after the London tower block fire in 2017 that claimed 72 lives....
...On the landing upstairs live Mrs Pond (Alix Dunmore), suffering from PTSD, and her vulnerably needy 17-year-old daughter (Nell Williams)....
...But as Apps shows in Show Me the Bodies, his account of the events that led to the tragedy at Grenfell, there were also glimmers of humanity....
...The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (Canongate/Bloomsbury) In 1921, the writer William Somerset Maugham made the first of two trips to British Malaya, collecting ideas for short stories as he went....
...In one email, a consultant with fire engineering experts Exova said the plans for ventilation at Grenfell made an “existing crap situation worse”....
...Supporters have remarked on her empathetic appearance at the Grenfell Tower in west London, in the aftermath of the 2017 fire, which claimed 72 lives, compared with the awkward response of then prime minister...
...The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (Canongate)Eleven years after The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng is back with a fictionalised account of William Somerset Maugham’s visit to Penang in 1921....
...Nearly four years after Grenfell, the scale of the problem remains uncertain....
...For a while, the arrival of Princes William and Harry, along with winning pictures of the growing boys, postponed the disintegration of the royal family idyll....
...Yasmin Joseph’s J’Ouvert (which will be broadcast on BBC4) is set at the 2017 Notting Hill Carnival, just months after the Grenfell Tower tragedy....
...Just hours after Jeremy Heywood and his wife Suzanne got the diagnosis of the lung cancer that ended his life less than 18 months later, the fire broke out in Grenfell Tower that was to kill 72 people....
...The IOPC in October said it was investigating the conduct of five officers over Ms Williams’ treatment....
...One such is The Likes of Us by Roy Williams (who co-wrote Death of England, recently given a blazing performance by Rafe Spall at the National Theatre)....
...Mr Davis, a Hanson alumnus, has led Imperial and chaired William Hill, DS Smith and Ferguson. He has seen no end of board fracas....
...Samuel counselled grieving relatives after the fire at Grenfell Tower killed 72 people in 2017, and after the Paddington train crash in 1999, in which 31 died....
...Perhaps most challenging is photographer D’Angelo Lovell Williams’ Face Down, Ass Up, a comment on unspoken sexual violence in the African-American community....
...The rule is designed to maintain the team’s identity, not race — forward Iñaki Williams is the son of African refugees. But it makes the 121-year-old institution a defiant — and successful — outlier....
...Taylor Wimpey, the FTSE 100 UK housebuilder, has reported a rise in profits but set aside £30m to replace flammable cladding on its developments after the Grenfell Tower disaster....
...One of the first firefighters on the scene of the Grenfell Tower fire in London last summer has said he could not recall having training on when to evacuate high-rise blocks....
...But inside the hotel, the mood was far from celebratory, as a long-awaited inquiry into last summer’s devastating fire at Grenfell Tower began....
...Yvette Williams, a former civil servant and longtime resident of Notting Hill who witnessed the blaze and helped set up Justice4Grenfell, one of several campaigning groups, said that many of the surviving...
...The government published the consultation document on Tuesday, more than a year after the Grenfell Tower disaster prompted calls for reforms to social housing provision....
...And those homes need to be safe: the inquiry into last year’s tragic fire at Grenfell Tower demonstrates that cost-cutting at the expense of quality in design can prove fatal....
...David Lammy, the Labour MP who has been campaigning on building safety after losing a friend in the Grenfell Tower fire, said the review was “damning and deeply concerning”....
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