floor it

"Just simple things like having to wear shoes indoors and not wanting your baby to crawl on the floor. It's massively stigmatising to not have flooring."

This scramble has resulted in the girl who always wanted to floor it in life becoming the brakes on the collective plans.

Her friend Nenita Bunggay told the inquiry: "She was so proud to live in Grenfell. She would always say every time we walked past: 'Nenita, that's my building, 21st floor. It's a big building and I love it so much, even though I'm alone there, I love seeing it every day'."

After the fire began in a flat on the fourth floor, it spread rapidly up the outside of the tower block, reaching the top floor in a matter of minutes.

He pressed the button and the lift began ascending but as it neared the second floor, it lurched downwards with a thud and got stuck between the first and second floors.