instead, five years on, it continues to devastate lives. i've heard from people, you know, "it's five years, get over it." it doesn't work that way. i will never get over what happened. five years, for somebody who hasn't gone through it, may seem like a long time. for me, it seems like it was only yesterday. we've been filming with marcio gomes since soon after he and his family escaped from the 21st floor of grenfell tower. there's not one day that i don't think about grenfell.

i still have flashbacks. i was the type of person that would never even give depression a look. i always used to say, "oh, depression, that's not for me. "i don't do depression." but that's totally wrong. the depression's taken a big hold of my life. ahead of the anniversary, survivors, grenfell residents, people involved in the rescue that night and those who lost loved ones are holding a memorialfootball day at queens park rangers in west london, close to the tower, people bonded forever by tragedy, heavily reliant on each other for comfort. coming together with everybody that survived the tower, the families, actually has a positive impact. you don't have to talk about grenfell because everybody sort of knows what happened. all right, one, two, look at the camera. just a smile, it warms you. cheers, mate. come on, boys! 72 people lost their lives as a result of the fire. the youngest was marcio's unborn son, logan. his mother, andreia, breathed in so much smoke and toxic gas that night, though she survived, he was stillborn in hospital nine weeks before his due date. i had his name on my shirt. that to me was just a way to... ..to say that i'm playing...

"i'm doing this for you." there's a reason why we're doing this, and let's keep that in mind. that's all i've got to say. let's keep that in mind. we are still in pain. emotionally, we are still suffering. it hasn't got easier. it's in fact got harder. hanan wahabi and herfamily also survived the fire, fleeing in their pyjamas as smoke filled the staircase. i have flashbacks, i have nightmares, i still struggle with sleep, i struggle with falling asleep. when i do fall asleep, i'm woken up by nightmares. ijust feel drained. physically and emotionally drained. hanan was a teacher in a school near grenfell tower, but she gave it up last year. it was too much for both her and her pupils, even four years on. it's not fair on the children to be exposed to the impact of ptsd. you know, they'd see me collapse at work. they'd see that happen. and they'd see staff running to my aid. hanan lived on the ninth

floor of grenfell tower. her brother and his family lived much higher up, on the 21st. soon after the fire, we pieced together the story of that floor. in flat 182 lived hanan's brother, abdulaziz el—wahabi, his wife faouzia, their children yasin, nur huda and mehdi. next door, in flat 183, were marcio gomes, andreia, who was heavily pregnant, and their two daughters. nine people survived from the 21st floor that night. six perished, including all five of hanan's loved ones. sometimes you just... you feel the pain and you kind ofjust hold it. you know sometimes if you cut your finger with a knife, you just hold it. it'sjust like that — it's there. you can feel the throbbing, but you're just literally holding it. and then sometimes you just can't hold it and it'sjust gushing. i struggled a lot. i feel guilty that we made it out and the rest of my family didn't.

grenfell tower still stands five years on, a reminder of that awful night casting its shadow across west london and wider. for five years, we've heard the personal stories of what happened to its residents as we've learned about how companies and regulators failed to protect them. we first met marcio and andreia in the hotel room they were moved to after the fire. andreia and their daughters had spent days in induced comas in hospital. it was there that logan was stillborn. the pain of losing him was just as heavy five years on. he wasn't even able to take a breath. it's still difficult to deal with. i go to his grave. we speak a lot. it sounds weird, but we do. i have his picture there, - which is something that i look at. i look at it every day. yeah, he's...

he's always going to be part of our life, so... i in this community, finding closure is linked to getting justice. but what happened at grenfell is still being investigated all these years on. there have been no charges, nobody yet held accountable. the police have said they won't pass any evidence to prosecutors until the grenfell tower inquiry has finished its work. set up by the government soon after the fire, it's already been going forfour years. after it opened in 2018, marcio gave gruelling evidence as the inquiry examined what happened on the night of the fire. hello. we're calling from the grenfell tower, yes. what flat are you in? 183. 183? we've tried to get out... we've tried to get out but we can't. what floor are you on?

what floor? floor 21. marcio told the inquiry he'd called 999 several times that night. "stay put and wait to be rescued", they were told, the inquiry heard that marcio's family fled their flat, 183, at around 3:30am, heading into the dark smoke—filled stairwell. in flat 182, hanan's relatives have been told by the london fire brigade to move into the bedroom and put wet towels around the door. i know that you have the 999 call, recordings and transcripts. they were given false hope by the lfb operators. they may well have survived if they didn't listen to the stay— put advice. there's a memorial garden to hanan's family in a primary school near the tower. the inquiry says if the fire brigade had told people to get out much

earlier, instead of sticking to its stay—put advice, more lives would have been saved. in a refurbishment in the years before the fire, cladding was added to grenfell tower. it transpired it was highly flammable and on the night, it tookjust 18 minutes for the flames to reach the top of the building. the inquiry�*s been investigating the actions that led to this by local and central government, by the refurbishment companies, by the manufacturers of the cladding. it was almost like a perfect storm. everyone was just allowing it to get through and it feels like it was profit ahead of lives. the mistakes, the lies... ..have been exposed. you can see... ..why grenfell happened. ever since the fire, the local community has marched regularly alongside survivors and the bereaved to remember the victims and demand change, because many hundreds of other buildings are still covered

in dangerous cladding even now. forfive years, a battle has been fought over who will pay to make them safe. people are still living in dangerousl materials around them and another grenfell can happen. are you waiting for another grenfell to happen so then you can- do something about it? grenfell happened because of decisions by so many — by the companies who represented their products as safe on tall blocks, though they lacked valid tests, by the refurbishment contractors accused of cost—cutting and a disregard for human life, by the regulators that failed to make proper checks, and by the politicians, who didn't tighten the rules despite warnings. but, as the inquiry is finding, few accept any real responsibility for their part in it. each individual needs to be held accountable for what they have done, the same way any other person would be held accountable for their criminal doings.

one night of horror, five years of suffering, and the personal toll of what happened at grenfell is still playing out in mental and physical health problems for those caught up in it, in profound grief and in the breakdown of relationships that seemed strong before the fire. you can imagine that four individuals — six—year—old son and eight—year—old daughter, all placed in one room, all struggling with grief, all trying to deal with... ..what had happened. it was toxic. the environment was toxic. yeah, we separated a few months after. i'm divorced now. it was a constant reminder, looking at each other. "we remind each other of what happened "from a negative perspective." four years on...

..we had to call it a day, really. we tried, but itjust got to a point where we just couldn't any more. what happens to this tower? what any lasting memorial here might look like is still being decided. for the bereaved, though, it is a shrine to their loved ones and a way of making sure they're not forgotten. i get drawn to it. any time i'm in the area or in close proximity to it, it's kind of peaceful in a very weird way. itjust helps me heal. one night, your life can change for... l for ever. i can see the top of the tower from where i live. i can see my brother's bedroom window — the space of where he died with his wife and his children. it's difficult, it's very difficult, but i take comfort. it's like he's still there.

comfort also comes from being with each other — people once connected because they lived together in a high—rise block in london, now linked by a night which fractured their lives forever. only they can fully understand what they went through as they face this five—year anniversary together. hello. cooler, fresher conditions are working their way south across the uk now this saturday. best of the sunshine is to be found across scotland and northern ireland. somewhat of a contrast to the week just gone quite often. so quite a lot of cloud lingering here. england and wales sitting under much greyer skies through the remainder of saturday with some showery rain sweeping through. that is the boundary between the very hot air to the south of the uk, still extending up from spain and france where we have heatwave

conditions at the moment and this cooler air that is trying to work in from the north. draw the line between those two air masses. what have you got? you've got a weather front, and that is what's going to be bearing some rain as we move through saturday evening. don't take it too literally, however, because, yes, it marks the boundary between the two air masses, but because the air is so warm across southern reaches of the uk as we go on into this evening, there is a good chance that we could see some locally sharper showers breaking out even before the front moves through. certainly through the evening, some wetter weather for the midlands, east anglia, thunderstorms getting into the south—east, and then on into the small hours of sunday. if anything, it looks like we'll see a focus on the lively weather perhaps shifting down towards the channel islands. but the cooler air should get into the majority of the uk by the end of the night. still be quite warm and muggy i think across the channel islands, perhaps the far, far south east of england, but much fresher, for example, for london, where we only had lows in the low 20s into the small hours of saturday—sunday. a lot of fine weather on the way for the uk as a whole. there's a low swirling out here in the north sea and that will pick the breeze up. for scotland and northern ireland,

there were a few showers here, but there will also be some sunshine. just a question mark as to how well those showers clear the south coast of the uk, though, through sunday. some southern most counties could actually see some quite heavy and persistent showers through the course of the day. and if anything, we could see them making a little bit of a resurgence northwards across southern england, as far north as the midlands, parts of east anglia through sunday evening, looking into the week ahead, there's always low pressure pretty close to the south of the uk. low pressures try and run in further north. between the two, a ridge of high pressure. so for the majority of the uk, i think through the week ahead there will be a lot of fine weather, but the closer to the south coast you are, the greater your chance will be of picking up some showers, and to the far north west of the uk, i think it will be somewhat breezier with some showery outbreaks of rain at times. some warmth returns through the week, but not the heat of recent days.

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