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Emergency personnel at the scene in Bow, east London, where a 20-metre crane has collapsed on to a house leaving people trapped inside, July 2020
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DEATHS in construction are still regarded as an occupational hazard, Unite said as a bereaved family criticised a delayed probe into how a crane collapse killed an elderly woman at her home.
Saturday marks the three-year anniversary since June Harvey, 85, was found dead after a 65ft crane crashed down in Bow, east London.
Ms Harvey’s niece, Jacqueline Atkinson, 66, and her son Sam Atkinson, 31, said they felt “let down” by the “lack of answers” from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation into her death.
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
On January 2 2014, PJ Harvey used her turn as guest editor of the Today programme to expose the realities of war, arms dealing and media complicity. The fury that followed showed how rare – and how threatening – such honesty is within Britain’s most Establishment broadcaster, says IAN SINCLAIR
