Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)

DISASTER: ONE YEAR AGO TODAY

Mum who fled blaze welcomes a ‘beacon of hope’ to the world state and ‘bad guys remain hidden’

- BY MATTHEW YOUNG

was elected Kensington MP just weeks before the fire, said she wished she had been elected earlier because, “I knew it could have been a risk”.

The Labour MP, who had read a blog raising fire safety fears, added: “The past year has entrenched all my beliefs... about the council and how they behave with people. I now feel I have evidence of their disdain.”

She also criticised a accommodat­ion. Five households have not yet found anywhere suitable.

From the walkways, the area adjoining the tower, 129 households moved out, of which less than a third A FAMILY who ran for their lives as Grenfell blazed around them has welcomed a baby girl, who they call their “beacon of hope”.

Incredibly, Aisha is one of six babies born in recent weeks to members of the family and their neighbours.

Beinazir Lasharie, her husband Damon Deiches and their two children fled barefoot as cladding spewed from the building.

Their four-year-old boy Liban has suffered since the disaster, and last week told his mum that for her birthday he wanted to buy her a hose “for the fire”.

After suffering PTSD and depression, Mrs Lasharie, 38, welcomed 7lbs 4oz Aisha 11 weeks ago.

Five of the six newly arrived babies were born to families who lived in the same 50-flat block as Beinazir in Testerton Walk – one of three sections of an estate that adjoins the foot of the tower.

She said of Aisha: “She’s been a ray of sunshine for all of us, a beacon of hope.” In March, Beinazir found temporary accommodat­ion back in the Grenfell community. She added: “God wanted to bless me with another child.”

Beinazir shares a Whatsapp group with the others who have recently given birth. She said: “We lost so many children. I knew those kids, I held those kids. But new children are being born and we have new life on the estate.” decision by a social housing chief, whose tenants died in the fire, to throw a fashion book launch party on the anniversar­y tonight.

She said of Notting Hill Genesis chief Kate Davies, who blogs about fashion outside her £220,000a-year job: “Her timing is tasteless in the extreme.” Meanwhile, Theresa May told grassroots group Grenfell Speaks that she was sorry she did not meet victims immediatel­y after have returned. A Kensington and Chelsea council spokesman said: “We have staff doing everything they can to rehouse families as quickly as possible.

“We’ve committed £235million to secure 307 homes.” the fire, saying that she was shocked by stories of “the absolute horror of what people had gone through”.

Mrs May was slammed at Prime Minister’s Questions for admitting 26 of 209 Grenfell families have still not accepted offers of permanent homes.

She insisted of the 203 households displaced, 183 have now accepted an offer of a permanent new home.

But but, of those, just 83 have moved in.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: “The reality is that some of them have still not got a permanent home.

“It is very important for the mental wellbeing of everybody that they have somewhere they can call home.”

Public buildings and tower blocks in West London were last night lit up in green as a mark of solidarity.

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