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Hello and welcome to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry podcast with me, Kate Lambell.

This week, staff from the Tenant Management Organisation, which ran the building, continued to give evidence.

And we learnt that the TMO blocked staff access to a resident blog, which raised issues of fire safety.

A health and safety manager said

she hoped their luck held while the ventilation system was not working for many months. And the

TMO was told by a handyman that the work he had to carry out to remove door closing mechanisms

made them illegal. Let's get started on the evidence then. In September 2013, Claire Williams was hired

to be the TMO's project manager for the Grenfell Tower refurbishment, handling the schedule

and a multi-million pound budget. She's already given evidence about how she worked with

contractors, which you can hear in episode 131 of this podcast. This time, though, the inquiry began by

asking her about one of her other roles, communicating the changes to residents. Shortly after

joining the TMO, Claire Williams saw the Grenfarl Action Group blog, which had been started by the

residents Ed Defarn and Francis O'Connor. Lead counsel to the inquiry, Richard Millett, read from her written witness statement.

I had seen some blogs at some point and I decided that they were negative and vitriolic and

that I would not look at them again.

They were libeless.

They were clearly slanted and substantiated information.

That was probably the crux of it.

Did you consider that the blogs might be a way in which the residents

or some of the residents of Grenfell Tower

sought to bring issues that affected them personally

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