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Warnings about lack of proper fire escape went unheeded before six died in tower block tragedy. Now local politicians are demanding a full inquiry Residents of a tower block ravaged by a fire that left six people dead, including a three-week-old baby and two other children, have been calling for years for the 12-storey building to be torn down. Ed Hammond, 37, an accountant who lives on the seventh floor of Lakanal House in Sceaux Gardens, Camberwell, south London, said he believed the flats were "death traps". "If the fire was in the central area, you would virtually have nowhere to go," he said. "The people must have been trapped in there." Carol Cooper, 38, who has lived in the tower block for 11 years, said: "There is no proper fire escape, just a stairwell down the centre of the building next to the lift. It means it is... [read full story]
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Documentary film-maker known for Our Street Michael Ingrams, who has died aged 83, was an actor, director and reporter who in the early years of ITV – specifically for Associated-Rediffusion (A-R) – combined all these functions...
Mariah Carey has claimed that she would like to collaborate with Westlife again. The two acts previously teamed up for a cover of 'Against All Odds', which reached the number one spot in 2000. "They're very exciting artists and...
