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Daily Express says FIREFIGHTERS are battling a blaze at a London block of flats near Grenfell Tower.

The Sun says A HELICOPTER pilot who died after his chopper crashed into a field has today been named as Ian MacDonald.

The Metro says IF YOU LIVE in London or have to travel to London at any point over the next few days, it’s not likely to be the best week you’ve ever had.

The Metro says the family of Archie Battersbee are preparing to mount an appeal bid to keep him on life-support treatment after a judge ruled the youngster is dead.

The Independent says Parts of the UK are set to swelter in a second heatwave within days as temperatures climb back to 28C later this week.

The Independent says Britain’s major trade unions are collectively urging the government to “get round” the negotiating table to try to find a resolution, 24 hours ahead of the biggest strike action on the rail network for decades.

Daily Mirror says A bus has gone up in flames while driving through Brixton, in south-west London.

The Independent says As news emerged of a tragedy involving a disabled passenger who had just arrived at Gatwick, the airport has announced plans to cap operations in July and August.

Daily Express says UK POLICE are “very alive” to a license offence committed by a fairly large proportion of drivers.

The Guardian says The British public are not bitterly polarised over trans equality, according to new research, which found a majority agreed schools should talk to pupils about transgender issues and that one in four knows a trans person personally.

The Metro says A woman who scammed her cousin out of her £47,000 life savings, claiming she was ‘lonely and used it to pay for people to go out with her’, has been jailed.

The Guardian says sea level rise will put about 200,000 coastal properties at risk in England within 30 years, new data suggests, as the climate crisis takes hold.

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire – a horrific tower block fire that claimed the lives of 72 people in west London in 2017.

The Metro says a new Overground station will be added to Transport for London’s network earlier than originally planned.

The Guardian says The tower’s former residents will never forget the fear and chaos of 14 June 2017, or the anger and grief that followed. They talk about the night when everything changed – and their long battles to regain some kind of normality

The Metro says It’s been five years to the day since fire engulfed the Grenfell Tower block in West London, tragically claiming the lives of 72 people.

France24 says survivors and families of the victims of Britain’s worst residential fire since World War II will on Tuesday mark the fifth anniversary of the tragedy.

Daily Mirror says A judge has ruled a boy’s life-support should stop following a treatment dispute at the High Court.

Daily Express says A FEROCIOUS fire has torn through a historic thatched cottage this morning, causing “extensive damage”.

The Metro says A man has been charged with murder after a ‘hero’ teenage boy was stabbed to death.

The Guardian says a man has been charged with the murder of a 15-year-old boy and the attempted murder of the teenager’s mother.

Daily Mirror says A 14-year-old boy has been killed and his mum was left fighting for her life after a “ferocious” attack at a home in Manchester.

Daily Express says COMMUTERS faced severe delays today as a lorry fire closed part of a busy motorway.

Sky News says thousands of new school places are to be created in England – particularly for children in disadvantaged areas and for those with special needs.

The Independent says Disgraced ex-film producer Harvey Weinstein is to be charged with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in London in August 1996.