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Morning Briefing: post-Grenfell council emails revealed

A dossier of emails obtained under the Freedom of Information Act has revealed how Kensington and Chelsea Council struggled in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire

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Channel 4 News has a special report on emails it has obtained from Kensington and Chelsea Council.

They show the problems of co-ordination the council experienced on the ground, as well as council leader Nicholas Paget-Brown repeatedly returning to the subject of media coverage.

Channel 4’s investigative outlet, Dispatches, aired an episode on Friday night asking whether Britain’s tower blocks are still unsafe.

Indeed, the media is again filled with Grenfell coverage after the first week of evidence at the inquiry.

Sky News carries an interview with Piers Thompson, who lives on the estate opposite the tower. He says his 14-year-old daughter is struggling to deal with the fact that debris from the tower still falls into their garden.

The BBC reports that the Bishop of London has unveiled the memorial garden which survivors of the fire wanted.

The Times reports on London mayor Sadiq Khan’s speech at the opening, in which he told Theresa May she has failed Grenfell victims.

The Times published another piece on Saturday outlining how lessons from an earlier fire at Lakanal House in Southwark were ignored before Grenfell – a subject that has been covered extensively by Inside Housing, including three months before the Grenfell Tower fire.

The Daily Mail has taken up the cause of the firefighters at Grenfell, telling how they wrote their names on their helmets before they went in so that they could be identified in case the worst should happen.

Rounding off the Grenfell coverage is The Guardian’s letters page, on which readers have set out various questions they believe the inquiry ought to answer.

Meanwhile, this morning, the BBC and many other outlets have led with coverage of research by homelessness charity Crisis, which says that homelessness could end in a decade if the government were to take action.

The BBC also reported on Saturday that the number of people now on social housing waiting lists around the country has cleared a million.

This is also combined with the police’s failure to act as landlords illegally evict tenants, adds an article in yesterday’s Observer.

Finally, the Financial Times reports on a call by the Local Government Association for the UK government to guarantee it will match the amount lent for housing by the European Investment Bank in England after Brexit.

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Tonight at 8.30, BBC One will air a documentary on Grenfell Tower from Bafta-winning director Ben Anthony, filmed in the year since the fire

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