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With an inquiry into the disaster in West Kensington due at the end of this month, campaigners are demanding that the calamity on May 16, 1968 must not be forgotten.

Film-maker Ricky Chambers, whose grandparents and infant mum escaped safely from Ronan Point, is calling on authorities to remember their plight when addressing the Grenfell tragedy.

He said: “They have to use this as an opportunity to prevent more lives being lost in similar tragedies.

“For now, the Government’s agenda is clear – to transform previously unfashionable areas of London, often at the expense of its existing residents, into an attractive destination for migrating capital.

“But it’s my firm and modest hope that an awareness of the Ronan Point tragedy can reaffirm the importance of safe housing as a basic human right.”

Ronan Point led to the Griffiths Inquiry, which called for much-needed amendments to national building regulations.

Some experts argued that these changes prevented Grenfell Tower, which was built in the 1970s, from collapsing altogether despite the massive damage caused by the blaze.yet many blocks in London and other cities have failed safety tests, with Prime Minister Theresa May announcing this week that the Government will fully fund the removal and replacement of dangerous cladding for councils and housing associations. Ricky added: “To see Grenfell engulfed in flames was truly shocking. “Ronan Point was a huge disaster but it was at a time when there wasn’t so much information around structural integrity and building regulations. “You knew as soon as you saw those Grenfell images that many people had died. It probably brought back the trauma Ronan Point survivors felt. “My nan still talks about hers. To this day she’s jumpy, fearful of loud noises, and she’s not comfortable even walking near a tower block.” Ricky’s grandparents Terry and Jean Newton, then aged just 19 and 22, lived with their year-old daughter Amanda on a beside the one that They had been in just 10 week the block fir March, after council’s waiti Jean, now 7 fateful mornin Ricky in a docu the disaster, Heard Shouts A She said: “Inst woke you up. I jumped o looked out the window and was smoke. I thought someo dropped a bomb or there wa in a factory. “Someone was shouting, ‘ the lifts – there’s a fire in the Wearing only her pyjamas her daughter from her cot an “completely endless” stairs u reached ground level. Husband Terry, now 69, was shift at an aluminium foil fa found out what happened w damaged block from a bus on Jean and Terry now happil retirement in Bridlington, Ea they are able to see their thre