Episode 1968: The Papers - Thursday September 5th 2024
The Richie Allen Show
The Richie Allen Show
4.7 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Richie reviews Thursday's newspapers
Grenfell report: prosecutions unlikely before 2026
Advertisers quit Twitter over misinformation
Government says water bosses will face jail for covering up pollution
BBC cuts jobs but spends millions on diversity and inclusion
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| 0:00.0 | Extra, extra, read all about it now. |
| 0:04.8 | Oh, baby. |
| 0:07.2 | Extra, extra, read all about it now. |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, baby. |
| 0:15.4 | Hello there. |
| 0:16.5 | It's Thursday morning here in Salford, the 5th of November 2024. You're listening to the Papers |
| 0:22.3 | podcast on your |
| 0:24.2 | podcast platform whichever one you use. |
| 0:27.4 | We're on everything these days. |
| 0:29.5 | The podcast and the Richie Allen show, iTunes, Spotify, |
| 0:32.9 | Podomatic, Podbean, |
| 0:34.7 | Google Podcasts, all of them, |
| 0:37.3 | every single bloom in one of them. I'm going to go to the |
| 0:40.4 | front pages of the UK Dailys, as I always do, beginning today with the Metro. Now, pretty much every |
| 0:48.0 | newspaper I will run through them quickly is leading today, front page leading with the final report into the Grenfell Tower disaster. |
| 0:57.0 | So back in 2017 there was a fire at Grenfell Tower. |
| 1:01.0 | 72 people lost their lives. It really is unimaginable. |
| 1:06.0 | Horrible, right? The publication of the final report yesterday, the Metro says the report found that all 72 deaths resulting from the fire had been avoidable and warning signs had been ignored throughout a 26-year countdown to disaster. |
| 1:25.1 | A lot of speculation around today that people involved in manufacturing |
| 1:30.4 | the cladding that was used on the building and others may very well face criminal charges |
| 1:36.8 | maybe sometime next year because they knew and concealed that the cladding was dangerous, it was combustible and it could lead to serious injury or death. |
| 1:49.3 | So that is the damning report into what happened in Grenfell, at Grenfell Tower in 2017. |
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