From the archive: The Grenfell fire (Pt 2): The cladding scandal
The Story
The Times
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🗓️ 31 August 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The Public Inquiry into the fire at Grenfell Tower will publish its final report on Wednesday. Ahead of its findings, we're re-visiting a two-part series that looked into the failings that lead to the tragedy - and the stories of the families who lived in the tower.
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Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants, |
| 0:06.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:13.0 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas we increased the proportion of our |
| 0:16.8 | global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other |
| 0:19.8 | transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:26.4 | BP.com slash and not all. |
| 0:28.9 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:36.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. |
| 0:39.5 | It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:43.8 | Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:46.3 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon |
| 0:50.4 | and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:56.1 | 2023. VP.com slash and not all. From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Manveen Rana. |
| 1:10.0 | Seven years on since the fire at Grenfell Tower, a final report from the inquiry is |
| 1:17.0 | due to be published in the next few days. |
| 1:20.6 | As a reminder, we're revisiting a two-part podcast back from when the story |
| 1:25.8 | was still stories of our times. Part one looked at some of the stories of the people |
| 1:31.7 | in the tower and those who lost their lives. |
| 1:35.2 | If you haven't heard it, please do go back and listen to yesterday's episode. |
| 1:40.3 | In part two today, we look at the details of the systemic negligence that led to what should be a watershed moment for building safety in Britain. Five years ago today a fire broke out in the early hours in a tower block in West London. |
| 2:16.2 | Fire Brigade? |
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