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Champs sad at gym fate

- BY DAVID LAMMY LONDON LABOUR MP

SO GENEROUS Clothes pile up DONATIONS Items sorted at local social club GIFTS OF FOOD Tables at Westway Sports Centre WE are still searching for my friend Khadija Saye. All we have is her last Facebook posts at 4am saying the fire was getting closer and she couldn’t get out.

We are praying and hoping she is in one of the hospitals.

We are desperate to find her and her mother Mary, who lived on the 20th floor of the Grenfell Tower.

As an MP, I am conscious of the fire at Lakanal House in 2009 in South London and the aftermath when we were told that lessons would be learned. The coroner said there should be a sprinkler system and a review of the building regulation­s.

Where were the sprinklers in Grenfell Tower? Why were people told to stay in their homes as flames tore through the building? Why did the fire spread so quickly? The residents’ associatio­n raised their concerns in November and it fell on deaf ears.

New high rises are largely luxury apartments, and of course they are equipped with sprinkler systems, fireproof walls and fire escapes.

Yet again, we have one rule for the rich and another for the poor who are being left behind – and left in danger. CLUB Dale Youth boxing gym BOXERS George Groves and James DeGale have paid tribute to their old gym, hit by the Grenfell inferno.

Dale Youth boxing club, in the basement, was upgraded in last year’s refurbishm­ent.

WBA super-middleweig­ht champ Groves tweeted: “DaleYouthA­BC has been [there] the past 15years. I was there Sunday. So sad.”

While DeGale, IBF supermiddl­eweight champ, posted: “Shocked at devastatio­n at GrenfellTo­wer where my old amateur club Dale Youth is.”

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TIME OF ANGUISH Distraught woman tries to get news of a missing friend

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