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also this hour, how climate change is transforming the british garden. they will be looking at new techniques because of rising temperatures. and looking for love online one rhino‘s search for a partner on the dating app tinder. good morning. welcome to bbc newsroom live. the labour party has switched its election campaigning to the nhs today pledging to give a bigger pay rise to nhs staff in england if it wins the general election. labour says it would scrap tuition fees and restore bursaries for student nurses and midwives which are due to end in august. the party says it would end the current 1% cap on wage increases, in part because nhs staff had been undervalued, overworked and underpaid by the government. labour says. and it says its policies would be paid for by reversing corporation tax cuts. the party says a labour government would also introduce tougher rules to ensure that staffing levels in hospitals are safe. the shadow health secretary, jon ashwort ....
and extended duration breathing apparatus have been working in extremely challenging and very difficult conditions to rescue people and to bring this major fire under control. the building contains 120 flats. residents have been describing the horrifying scene they woke up to. residents were at the window, help me. help me. you can see the fire going into the last room that they re in and just engulfing their whole apartment. the met police have set up a casualty bureau for concerned friends and family members. the phone number is: 0800 0961233. hello. good morning. this is north kensington in london and behind me about 250 meters away is grenfell tower or in fact what remains of g re nfell tower. tower or in fact what remains of grenfell tower. you can see perhaps in the bottom left of your picture water from the fire service from the emergency services still, still being projected on to the tower. this is what, eight hours after the fire began. certainly eight hours ....
and lost their children, there are firefighters that have come out injured, that we don t even know if they re going to come out safe. worried families are desperately searching for news on their loved ones. these three girls are among the missing. the 2a storey grenfell tower is still burning in places as fire grenfell tower had recently been refurbished at a cost of £10 million. residents say they were astonished by how fast the flames spread. we will have the latest on this fast moving story in the next hour. a news conference now with the latest from the emergency services. thanks very much for your patience. you will be aware that the london fire brigade received the first of a number of calls to a significant incidentjust number of calls to a significant incident just before number of calls to a significant incidentjust before 1am number of calls to a significant incident just before 1am this morning. a large number of cruise, operational firefighters, morning. a ....
windows weren t, and there were people in there. you could see the silhouettes. and then the next thing, explosions. the london fire brigade desperately struggled to reach the upper floors, but were repelled by the heat and falling debris. this is a completely unprecedented fire. in my 29 years in the london fire brigade, i have never seen a fire of this nature and i have seen many high rise fires. residents are sheltering in nearby community centres, some are missing family members. the investigation begins into how the fire started, and how it was allowed to take hold with such devastating effect. around 70 people are being treated in six london hospitals, 20 people are in a critical condition. the fire is still burning firefighters say it will still be some hours before it s out. we ll be bringing you the latest, in this extended programme. stay with bbc news for all the developments from our correspondence. good evening from west london where a huge fire is stil ....
hearing from them later in the programme. we will hearfrom karl mercer at a nearby mosque which opened its doors to help those in need tonight, who were evacuated from the tower block itself. alice has a different vantage point of the one i ve got now. firstly, i think we should hear from those affected most. people who tonight are counting themselves lucky to escape alive. people who lost their homes and in many cases, people who have lost just about everything and in many cases, people who have lostjust about everything they own. lostjust about everything they own. . . today lostjust about everything they own. today is the 14th ofjune. .. 2am, i was woken up by the siren noise. it was my son that woke me up. i think it was about 1:20am. and where were you? on the 17th floor. we grabbed them. we ran downstairs, it took us a solid four minutes to get out, just as i was entering the ground floor, the fire brigade was coming up. it was moving very fast. i cannot imagine, ....