and coming up in sportsday on bbc news, the british and irish lions have been told they need to man up if they are to beat the all blacks in the second test and keep the series alive in new zealand. good evening. the leader of kensington and chelsea council, nicholas paget brown, has announced that he s standing down after days of mounting criticism of the authority s response to the grenfell tower fire. it was rebuked by downing street after a decision last night to abort a public meeting and there s been further evidence that cost cutting resulted in a downgrading of building refurbishments. in his statement, mr paget brown said he had to accept responsibility for what he called perceived failings after the tragedy which has claimed, according to police, at least 80 lives. here s our home affairs correspondent, tom symonds. were you pressured by no 10 to resign? the pressure simply got too great. he was the leader criticised with failing to cope with the crisis in h
for them to be overturned. and we ll be discussing the resignation of the leader of kensington and chelsea council more than a fortnight after the tragedy of grenfell tower. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the leader of kensington and chelsea council, nicholas paget brown, has announced that he s standing down after days of mounting criticism of the authority s response to the grenfell tower fire. it was rebuked by downing street after a decision last night to abort a public meeting and there s been further evidence that cost cutting resulted in a downgrading of building refurbishments. in his statement, mr paget brown said he had to accept responsibility for what he called perceived failings after the tragedy which has claimed according to police at least 80 lives. here s our home affairs correspondent tom symonds. were you pressured by no 10 to resign? the pressure simply got too great. he was the leader criticised with failing to cope with the crisis in his b
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