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Grenfell

[gren-fel]

noun

  1. Sir Wilfred Thomason 1865–1940, English physician and missionary in Labrador and Newfoundland.



Grenfell

/ ˈɡrɛnfəl /

noun

  1. Joyce, real name Joyce Irene Phipps. 1910–79, British comedy actress and writer

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The government said the new legislation would "end the culture of cover-ups" and learn lessons from wider disasters including the Grenfell Tower fire and the Post Office Horizon and infected blood scandals.

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"Make no mistake, this a law for the 97, but it is also a law for the subpostmasters who suffered because of the Horizon scandal, the victims of infected blood, and those who died in the terrible Grenfell Tower fire," he said.

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All major music and sound systems will be switched off at 15:00 for a 72-second silence to commemorate the 72 lives lost in the Grenfell Tower fire, as well as those who have died at Carnival in recent years and Kelso Cochrane whose murder in 1959 became one of the catalysts for the event.

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Music was stopped at 15:00 on Sunday for a 72-second silence to commemorate the 72 lives lost in the Grenfell Tower fire, as well as people who have died at the carnival in recent years and Kelso Cochrane, whose murder in 1959 became the catalyst for the event.

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On both days, there will be a 72-second silence at 15:00 to remember the 72 lives lost in the Grenfell Tower fire, as well as those who have died at Carnival in recent years and Kelso Cochrane whose murder in 1959 became one of the catalysts for the event.

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