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A series of memorial events will be held to mark five years since the tower block blaze, which claimed the lives of 72 men, women and children.

I will never forget the morning of the 14th June, 2017. I woke up at 5:30am, a few hours after the fire had begun. When I grabbed my phone, it was blowing up with notifications. My wife Nicola’s phone was buzzing even more often.

The incompetence and malpractice that cost 72 people their lives has been exposed, but the pace of change is painfully slow, says Lucie Heath, deputy news editor of Inside Housing

William and Kate join bereaved families and survivors to remember victims on fifth anniversary of tragedy

Tuesday marks five years since the west London tower block blaze, in which 72 people died.

In the days and weeks after the 2017 Grenfell Tower tragedy, in which 72 people lost their lives in a fire that consumed the 24-storey residential block in North Kensington, London, dozens of memorials appeared in the vicinity of the building. People brought flowers and pictures and green ribbons. They…

More than 1,000 residential tower blocks in London still have serious fire safety issues such as flammable cladding, five years on from the Grenfell Tower disaster.

Junior counsel to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Emma Hynes joined the company’s board as non-executive director

The tower’s former residents will never forget the fear and chaos of 14 June 2017, or the anger and grief that followed. They talk about the night when everything changed – and their long battles to regain some kind of normality