Very grateful to Ed Walker for writing an incredibly personal piece in today's Lancashire Lead The Lead on the anniversary of his father's death. There's more in the newsletter which I'll write post about separately but do check out Ed's writing thelancashirelead.substack.com/p/the-shadows-…

🚨 70 firefighters are battling a blaze at a block of flats in Catford on the same day the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry report is published

Good news. 56 days should be the absolute minimum. No one should be evicted full stop without a move on plan in place. Creating more homelessness is an unacceptable way to run an asylum system.

In the early 2000s, the BNP became the second-largest party on the council of the East Lancashire town. But why did the far right manage to take hold here? And what happened next? Kevin Gopal on the rise and fall of the far right in Burnley: buff.ly/4ggrVHm

Jon Trickett, Labour MP for Normanton and Hemsworth, is the only sitting MP to have voted against the government on scrapping winter fuel payments. Trickett was joined by 5 of the 7 suspended Labour MPs: Zarah Sultana, Ian Byrne, Apsana Begum, Richard Burgon and John McDonnell.

"I would never do anything to make my constituents poorer." 🚨 Labour MP for Blackpool South has refused to back the government's means-testing of winter fuel payments: thelead.uk/winter-fuel-pa…