COMPANIES involved in the fatally flawed refurbishment of Grenfell Tower are playing the blame game: expressing “no trace of responsibility” for the fire, the inquiry’s second phase heard yesterday.
The second stage of the investigation into the 2017 disaster that killed 72 people opened at a new venue in Paddington, west London, to consider how the council housing block came to be wrapped in the cladding.
The first stage concluded that flammable aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding was the “principal” reason for the rapid spread of fire up the 24-floor building.
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
As we approach the half-anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy, the community gathers to remember loved ones while grappling with mixed emotions surrounding the ongoing deconstruction of the tower and the hopeful plans for a memorial, writes EMMA DENT COAD


