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But four of Ronan Point’s 260 residents never lived to have a future and 17 others were injured.

Amazingly Ivy Hodge, the woman whose cooker triggered the blast, survived despite being blown off her feet. So did a young mum who was stranded on a narrow ledge when the rest of her living room disappeared.

Ricky said: “For its residents Ronan Point wasn’t merely a headline, it was a home.

“People loved, dreamed and died here.

“Like Ronan Point, Grenfell was a huge compromise of predominantly poor people’s lives.

“There is an injustice there and we need to utilise this injustice and turn it into something positive, to protest against these things happening again.”

To watch Ricky’s film go to vimeo.com/ 263826593