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Martina Lees

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Senior property writer investigating the building safety scandal, housing & sustainability @thesundaytimes @thetimes [email protected]

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The hardest and most important article I have written in 20 years of journalism: Five years ago on Tuesday, 72 people died at . Over 10 pages, this is the definitive account of the disaster - and the lies, cover-ups and mistakes that led to it thetimes.co.uk/article/corner…

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This is also the untold story of the 5-year-old girl from the Belkadi family on Tower's 20th floor: her mum, dad, big sister, 8, and baby sister all died. She alone survived. Her aunt Samira and I both cried talking about that terrible night thetimes.co.uk/article/corner…

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And it is the shocking story of how the government failed to tighten flawed rules despite warnings, and how the three manufacturers of the panels that fuelled the fire practiced a 'fraud... on the market'. The details are devastating thetimes.co.uk/article/corner…

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I spoke to Zak, who was 16 when he carried his sister Sara, 8, from the 9th floor, but their cousins on floor 21 were killed. Sara has a memory box with burnt photos and marbles from her cousin Mehdi, 8, who died. You can smell the fire when she opens it thetimes.co.uk/article/corner…

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