doors in the hours after the tragedy, offering shelter and collecting donations, but people are asking, why did they need to step m, asking, why did they need to step in, where was the government, the local council? why didn t they do more? one conservative councillor from kensington and chelsea admits things have gone badly wrong. from what i can see, we have been caught off guard. underground, people were quick to organise themselves. it has been kind of a disgraceful slow, limp, ifi been kind of a disgraceful slow, limp, if i can put it like that. been kind of a disgraceful slow, limp, ifi can put it like that. the prime minister accepts that in the hours after the disaster, the support for families was not good enough. now extra government staff are being drafted in to work with the council. it follows a meeting between the local people and the reason may in which they were keen to have their voices heard. things are finally moving forward and the government and the counc
about the things that adults are facing, some of these children have faced some of their friends, their families, they feel like nobody is listening and nobody is helping them. thank you very much for your thoughts, there have been responses from the government all morning on the airwaves but this is how people are feeling right now in the shadow of g re nfell tower. lets get an update on the weather. plenty of sunshine, temperatures, they have been climbing, already across parts of east anglia, 30 degrees, plenty of other places, not that far behind, a little cooler for the coasts with sea breeze, the heat, this afternoon, could spark off the odd shower, if they catch one could be heavy and boundary, vast majority could be dry. low cloud lapping onto the shores, north west england and the isle of man. eastern scotland seeing spells of sunshine, different story for the north west, here, more cloud and outbreaks of patchy rain. as we go through the evening and tonight, the ban
france force hundreds of homes to be evacuated as firefighters battle the blaze. escaping it all. theresa may and her husband philip are in italy on the first leg of a three week break. its five o clock. our top story. charlie gard s mother has returned to the high court for a new hearing a day after abandoning legal action over treatment for her terminally ill baby. lawyers told a judge that connie yates and charlie s father, chris gard, want to put the bruising dust of the legal fight behind them and have their final hours with charlie at home. thejudge said he needs more information on the plan to take him home. doctors say it is not practical to switch c s life support machine of away from great ormond street hospital or a hospice. our correspondent lisa hampele is at the high court. thejudge showing a the judge showing a degree of frustration at the breakdown and trust between the doctors and charlie gard s parents, even now continuing. you can feel the tension in cour
a food wholesaler. the two firms will create the leading food business in the uk but it may need approvalfrom the business in the uk but it may need approval from the competition authority. emma simpson has more. tesco already has the lion s share of what we spend on the supermarket aisles. but what we put in our trolleys is only half of the food we consume. here is the other half. from eating out to food on the go. this fast growing market is what tesco wants a slice of. it has struck a deal to purchase booker. this wholesaler supplies thousands of pubs, restaurants, caterers and corner shops. tesco says joining forces makes sense. the uk population is passionate about food and is changing the way that it wants to consume food at home, on the go, it wants delivery, it wants a greater service. the combination of our two businesses allows us to serve those customers better than we do individually on our own. tesco is already big. with this deal, it will become an even more p
african americans? and what impact will donald trump make? gabriel gatehouse has more. band plays in the final week of the obama presidency, a louisiana high school marching band rehearses for the big day. we don t see colour, we don t see race, we don t see gender, we don t see ethnicity. we see potential. they are one of ten school bands chosen to play at the inauguration. there has been a lot of talk about how we need healing, and sometimes. healing happens, you know, you just have to quit picking at it. but as it marks the transition from obama to trump, america is having two very different conversations about race. this is the life that black people live, and people of colour, but this is the life we live so it is not necessarily a conversation about race it is just a conversation. amid tension over the issues of police killings, white supremacists feel emboldened. hailtrump, hail our people, hail victory! and for some, talk of a return to the good old days signifies n