People who requested it by saying that the block is unsafe and we have to move people into a Leisure Centre seems like a slight overreaction and it is going to put pressure on other councils across the country, to see whether or not they are going to react in the same way. It is difficult when youre in the councils position. What decision you make . I dont think this decision will have been taken, likely. You could tell from the Body Language of the Council Leader. I am sure that this was done with a very heavy heart. Whilst the might be a small chance, even this remotest chance of a repeat of those scenes we saw last week is something that iio we saw last week is something that no council can be seen to let through. Peoplesvoices have got more powerful in the wake of the tragic circumstances that Grenfell Tower. Can you imagine the outcry if any council sat on any Fire Safety Warning or they did nothing they delayed . It be unthinkable. As you said, tony, some people have said i am not worried about it, i am not going anywhere. Two things. It will be interesting to see what the fire service said. I suspect that they have not ordered an evacuation and this is a political decision. They did express concerns. They expressed concerns about the safety of the building, well, maybe i am wrong about this. Perhaps what Council Leader should have been doing for the last six or seven years is upgrading facilities in Council Blocks that they control, perhaps putting sprinklers in, perhaps putting sprinklers in, perhaps putting proper fire alarms putting sprinklers in, perhaps putting properfire alarms in before this accident. This, to me, smacks of a panic, kneejerk reaction because camden and other councils have bigger questions to answer, than just the cladding outside these buildings. The daily mirror looking at the story, as well, in a connected way, but taking it back to what happened in grenfell, cilliers in our kitchens. The grenfell fire started by a Fridge Freezer that had not been recalled. Concerns for lots of people about how safe the appliances are. The blame game has moved around as lessons are being learned. We have seen lessons about the cladding being learned at great speed by councils and authorities. They have moved to the Fridge Freezer. 64,000 of these products have been sold throughout the uk. That will not just the people in tower blocks but all sorts of consumers, and they have been invited to get in touch with the company. Presumably this is one step short of recalling the product. We will find out that there are other councils facing the same criticisms, so councils facing the same criticisms, so it will go on. We dont want to balance Safety Problems with widespread panic. This particular appliance has a plastic backing to it. That is correct. Not a huge amount of detail in the front page but it seems to be saying that this specific appliance when manufactured in the us has a metal back and in the uk, it has a plastic back that can go up the uk, it has a plastic back that can go up in 90 seconds whereas the metal one stops are far from happening. This is a slightly ignored issue that we have had some concerns about white goods. There was a series of tumble drier fires in london that were raised in parliament. There has been some concern around white goods and fires. That will come into sharp focus because of what happened at grenfell. This conversation around cladding we were not having a couple of weeks ago has become a major issue of national importance. The telegraph looking at the risk to hospitals, feared to be at risk, public buildings will have to be tested, again, following what happened in grenfell. The scale of the checks that is going to be carried out in public buildings is enormous. This is notjust hospitals, it is also schools. All of us have seen the way in which 19605 buildings have been spruced up by sticking some cladding on the front of them. That was a popular method of making these buildings look more modern, but there are hundreds of them all over the country. We havent even considered private tower blocks. Obviously, hospitals, schools, universities, will become a focus. The Department Of Health says it is working with the Building Research establishment. They are having a busy week doing the testing on the cladding. And an obstruction has gone out to hospitals, who did the contracting, what sort of cladding was use . And instruction. So this is going to ta ke and instruction. So this is going to take time. This is the trickle down effect. In the wake of last weeks tragedy, one of the immediate criticisms was that many of these regulations were too complex to be interpreted by standard local authorities. Clearly, what we should remember is that this cladding and these buildings have been in existence for half a decade and this was a tragedy that stood alone, so we had that people are seen this with perspective but on the ban, these are tests that should not have been happening in this knee jerk speed, this haste to move things to the top of the pile, that should have been going on much more regularly. Lets move on to the express , regularly. Lets move on to the express, shall we . Theresa may stands up to eu bullies. Express, shall we . Theresa may stands up to eu bullieslj express, shall we . Theresa may stands up to eu bullies. I would say that, watching the spectacle of theresa may in europe is relatively speaking what she does better. We know that she has had a terrible two weeks since the election. I would think she may be relieved to go Behind Closed Doors into boardrooms with lots of paper and policy to munch through and, frankly, anything she says, at least shes not going to have the pr disasters that she had when meeting the electorate and being asked to respond to tragedies. How clay is it, the direction were going in . It is as clear as mud. That is probably not how i would have interpreted what is going on, the way the express has. Theresa may has gone to the european council, meeting of the heads of government, a regular meeting and they have lots of things to discuss, by the way. Brexit is not top of the agenda for the other 27 nations. They have many issues to deal with. I can understand the sense of frustration from them. What britain wants is not clear to our european allies and friends. This process has been delayed by a leadership election last year, theresa may chose to delay it by two months by having an election in which she thought she would win a majority for what is called bohar brexit. She completely lost her majority and has no mandate for her hard brexit or any part of the eu Negotiation Strategy and the reality of a Hung Parliament means that a very small part, pro european tories in her own party will be able to scupper significant parts of a plan as it goes through. She has arrived in europe, shes been humiliated by the british electorate, she still does not have a plan and the plan she does have is likely to be voted down by herrerin party. So if you are a european leader you are not sure whether, what she wants whether she will be able to deliver any of it. Negotiations that everyone involved with will have two compromise, over something. This comes after a concession about eu national staying in this country. Saying that she is standing up to bullies, is she walking in back was come on the back foot . There was going to be much budging. There has already been fudging and u turns on the manifesto before the election, there was a u turn, so he can expect some more before the signature is dry. We will before the signature is dry. We will be here in two years, talking about this. It is a marathon, not a sprint. Lets go to the mail. Glastos labour love in. Ed balls has been spotted in the Bathroom Queue with his towel. Tom watson is there, he seems to be a regular. Ive seen them there in the past. They are getting hot under the collar because jeremy they are getting hot under the collar becauseJeremy Corbyn is due to address the crowd and the bbc has been accused of bias because this is happening. It is a televised event and they are televising it. The bbc did not book jeremy and they are televising it. The bbc did not bookJeremy Corbyn to appear on the premise stage. But they have a duty to televise on the pyramid stage. A bbc youth reporter, someone who may or may not have voted for Jeremy Corbyn was quoted as saying, brilliant. They are supposed to be generating enthusiasm for an event that they are televising. Abe supposed to stand back and say that other mps speeches are available . My other mps speeches are available . My view is that the bbc should not be showing this. It would not be particularly difficult for the bbc to cut away. They massively open themselves to accusations of bias for the left. I do think that this is an explicit political act that has been done to put the leader of the opposition on the main stage. That is politics and not music and the bbc needs to be clearer about where that line falls. If it was me i would not go anywhere near broadcasting it. Theresa may is not going to be there, that is the point, there is clearly biased side. What if the Prime Minister turns up at glyndebourne and makes a speech . I think hes hijacking this event. But he was invited. Whoever invited him is hijacking the event to make a political point. A bit of A Different Light tonight. I am so sorry. It is because of the news events and what is happening at camden. Caroline and tony will be staying and will be back in the next hour. Join us again at 11pm for more news. Hello, there. After the exceptional heat earlier this week the weather has returned to something a little bit more like normal, just in time for the weekend and with some sunshine today, most of that across southern and indeed northern parts of the country. As you can see from our weather watchers in cornwall and the western isles. A slow moving Weather Front has brought cloud and some patchy rain. This frontal system some patchy rain. This frontal syste m o nly some patchy rain. This frontal system only slowly progressing south and east as you go through tonight. Taking some cloud and patchy rain with it across england and wales. Some patchy Rain Cringing into Northern Ireland. Scotland, largely dry with a few showers. Perhaps just a little on the humid side towards the south. The weekend, quite a mixed affair. Sunshine and showers, quite the breezy and windy at times in the north and a fairly cool fuel to the weather. This is how we start of saturday. A cool feel. The wind picking up immersed in scotland by this stage. In Northern Ireland, some bright or sunny spells but north west england into north wales, likely to be cloudy with some mist over high ground and spots of rain and drizzle, and a similar story across east anglia and the south east and down along the south coast of england, some cloud and patchy rain to start the day. There could be some dampness in the air at glastonbury. Things should brighten up glastonbury. Things should brighten up as glastonbury. Things should brighten upasa glastonbury. Things should brighten up as a day goes on although that could start of the odd shower the afternoon. Across england and wales, through the day tomorrow, large rials cloud and patchy rain but think should brighten up a little. For Northern Ireland and scotland, sunshine and showers with some gales across scotland, quite unusual at this time of year. A cool day in the west, getting up into The 20s For Norwich and london. Through saturday night, the low pressure responsible for the wins across scotland will drift eastwards and the winds will ease a touch during sunday. Still quite blustery with the wins coming from the north westerly direction, so cool feel the country. Some spells of sunshine although the south probably staying quite loudly for much of the day, and still with that cool, fresh feel with highs of 1623. Martine croxall. The headlines at 11pm. Around 4000 people have been evacuated from five tower blocks on a Camden Council estate following news they have similar cladding to that in Grenfell Tower. I know it is difficult, but Grenfell Tower changed everything, and they do believe we can take any risk with our residents safety, and i have to put them first. Bewildered residents are told to head for a nearby Leisure Centre some arent happy with the councils decision. Its a kneejerk reaction from the council, they had to be seen to be doing something, but this is just creating chaos and pandemonium. In the Grenfell Tower investigation, police say the cladding and insulation there has failed safety tests, and Manslaughter Charges may follow
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