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Every week the Grenfell Tower Inquiry sits, we analyse and explain the evidence heard.
The Inquiry’s Phase 2 report was released this week, distilling 400 days of evidence and more than three hundred thousand documents. The rep...
In the early hours of the 14th of June 2017, a fire broke out in a tower block in West London. This fire was both a personal tragedy and a n...
As the sun rises, the local council, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea are responsible for helping families try and find their lov...
When Ed Daffarn opens his door in the early hours of the morning of the 14th of June 2017, he is confronted by a wall of thick acrid smoke....
On the top floor of Grenfell Tower, Marcio Gomes and his family are waiting. Outside, the fire has wrapped itself around 3 sides of the buil...
In the early hours of the 14th June 2017, the bell in North Kensington’s fire station begins to ring. Firefighter David Badillo assumes it i...
When Grenfell resident Ed Daffarn first heard about the multimillion pound refurbishment of the tower, he welcomed it. The estate had, in hi...
Why didn't the civil service act on warnings about combustible building materials? You’ve probably not heard of Brian Martin but he’s centra...
A tale of “deliberate and calculated deceit”. Beneath the cladding, a layer of insulation surrounded Grenfell Tower. This too was combustibl...
How manufacturers sold combustible cladding When Marcio Gomes found out that Grenfell Tower, where he lived, was going to be covered in clad...
How a fire in Scotland in 1999 foretold the fire at Grenfell Tower. In 1999, a dropped cigarette started a tower block fire in a small town...
As the world wakes up to news of a fire in West London, questions start about who’s to blame. At 8.30am on the morning of the 14th of June 2...
A new 10-part series about the Grenfell Tower fire and why it happened. As the public inquiry into the fire at Grenfell Tower publishes it’s...
After more than four years, more than three hundred thousand documents, four hundred days of testimony and around £150 million, the Inquiry...
"I can’t undo the past, but I wanted to be a part of making things better” While the Inquiry has paused hearing evidence, Kate Lamble spoke...
Toxicologist Professor David Purser told the Inquiry that the rapid spread of smoke was the principal cause of death, and that burning cladd...
This week the inquiry heard closing statements for Module 6, outlining how combustible materials came to be tested, certified and regulated...
This week, as we passed the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, two expert witnesses levelled a series of fierce criticisms at the...
This week, the Inquiry moved on from examining the aftermath of the fire and began hearing evidence from a series of experts in fire enginee...
This week, the Inquiry heard about the confusion, lack of grip and poor communication within Whitehall, as ministers and civil servants deal...
This week, the Inquiry examined how central government responded to the aftermath of the disaster while continuing to hear about London-wide...
This week, the Inquiry continued to investigate the events immediately after the fire by digging deeper into what happened at local rest cen...
This week we heard different views from senior managers as to how the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea coped in the aftermath of the...
The Inquiry continued to hear evidence about the immediate aftermath of the fire. Rebecca Blackburn, a former Contingency Planning Officer f...
This week, the Inquiry moved on from the technical discussions of the building regulations and the role of central government to focus on th...
This week, three politicians gave evidence. Eric Pickles, former housing secretary, told the Inquiry that he could not understand how the go...
This week, civil servant Brian Martin completed his evidence after more than seven days. In his concluding evidence, he said that there were...
This week, senior civil servant Brian Martin continued giving evidence to the Inquiry. As the only person to testify with experience working...
This week, the Inquiry heard from three senior civil servants: Dame Melanie Dawes, the former permanent secretary at the Ministry for Housin...
This week, the Inquiry heard about the work culture in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and how Richard Harral, the...
This week the Inquiry heard from inside Whitehall, as two civil servants, Bob Ledsome and Anthony Burd, gave evidence. It was revealed that...
This week, the Inquiry heard from Debbie Smith, a senior figure in the Building Research Establishment for more than 34 years. She failed to...
This week the Inquiry heard that cladding similar to that installed on Grenfell Tower underwent a “catastrophic” fire test 16 years earlier....
This week, David Crowder, former Head of Investigation at the Building Research Establishment, told the Inquiry that an investigation into t...
This week, the Inquiry heard how the National House Building Council (NHBC) approved Kingspan’s combustible cladding insulation for many yea...
This week we heard closing statements for two modules of the inquiry on firefighting. Lawyers for the London Fire Brigade (LFB) and those re...
This week the Inquiry questioned representatives from both the National House Building Council and Local Authority Building Control about th...
This week the Inquiry turned its attention to how building regulations were set and combustible materials tested and certified. Lawyers for...
Andy Roe, Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, made a series of frank admissions this week. He said the LFB was aware of every single pr...
This week evidence was presented by former London Fire Brigade Commissioner Dany Cotton, who previously told the Inquiry that the LFB could...
This week the Inquiry continued to look at how the London Fire Brigade (LFB) trained its Control Room staff to deal with emergency calls. Ev...
This week the Inquiry looked at how the London Fire Brigade (LFB) trained its Control Room staff to deal with emergency calls. Evidence was...
This week the Inquiry focused on the London Fire Brigade’s firefighting policies for high-rise buildings. Peter Cowup – former Assistant Com...
This week the inquiry saw the closing of one module and the beginning of another. The opening statements for module six looked at how local...
The inquiry heard evidence from expert witnesses on the London Fire Brigade’s preparedness for the Grenfell Tower fire. Fire safety expert P...
Paul Grimwood, a fire engineer at Kent Fire and Rescue Service, developed an alternative approach to firefighting in high rise buildings in...
This week we learned that a member of the London Fire Brigade’s Fire Safety Team wrote that giving advice on the risks of high rise cladding...
The “uncontrolled spread of fire across the outside of tall buildings is a significant threat”. The inquiry revealed that weeks before the f...
“The simple fact is that the LFB did know. They knew, and lives could and should have been saved”. This week the inquiry heard new evidence...
“Truly a case of donkeys led by donkeys”. This was how a lawyer for a group of the bereaved, survivors and residents described lead contract...