with me is kurt barling, who's a former special correspondent for bbc london, who did an investigationo the lakanal house flat fire in camberwell injuly 2009 — in which six people died. he thinks that if the recommendations of the coroner in that case had been acted on, then it's possible that the scale of the tragedy at the grenfell tower fire might have resulted in fewer people losing their lives. kurt is now a professor ofjournalism at middlesex university, london. a fire that killed six people with firefighters coming out saying that they had never seen anything like what they had seen in that fire. it was nowhere near as catastrophic as g re nfell was nowhere near as catastrophic as grenfell house. lack in our house was a fire that raised an awful lot of questions about safety in those type of high—rise flats for their residents. the coroner in that case made a lot of recommendations. what we re made a lot of recommendations. what were the central ones? it took four yea rs were the central ones? it took four years to get too impressed. we can't wait that long to get a public enqui

professor kurt barling is a journalist who investigated the southwark fire almost eight years ago, and a terrible incident at lakanal house, as you said. six people died. it was as you said. six people died. it was a fire which took over effectively a whole block in south london. of course, there were many lessons at the time that were said to be learnt. let me run you through a list of what the inquest into the fire said in 2013 in terms of the main questions that needed to be addressed. why the fire spread so quickly, should there have been alarmed and sprinklers, did renovation affect safety, was the advice to stay put right and what we re advice to stay put right and what were the implications for other buildings? what is tragic today is that exactly the same questions are being asked about this fire yesterday. frankly, it can be described as nothing short of a national scandal that this has been allowed to happen again. after an inquest which looked at so much evidence over 11 weeks in 2013 in lakanal house, evidence over 11 weeks in 2013 in la ka nal house, nothing evidence over