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    Luana Gomes, 12, was treated for inhalation of the highly toxic gas after escaping the inferno which killed at least 80 people, according to BBC Newsnight. All the latest news, views and opinion on the Grenfell tragedy The schoolgirl fled the fire which tore through the 24-storey tower block with her parents Marcia and Andreia Gomes and her 10-year-old sister Megan. The two sisters and their mother were put into induced comas at King’s College Hospital where Mrs Gomes, 37, lost her unborn baby, already named Logan. Luana, who was unconscious for six days, was diagnosed with smoke inhalation injury and cyanide poisoning, discharge records seen by the BBC show. It also records that she received two doses of hydroxycobalamine for cyanide poisoning. All three women were treate...

    A consultation on the plans has opened and is set to run until September. Two options have been put forward for rerouting the 115 between Commercial Road and Aldgate, allowing it to call at Whitechapel station. Option one is via Jubilee Street, Stepney Way, Sidney Street and Whitechapel Road in both directions. Option two is the same as option one but running via Stepney Way westbound only and Ashfield Street eastbound. Another plan sees route 25, which runs from Ilford to Oxford Circus via Aldgate, Whitechapel and Mile End, run only as far as Holborn. For more information and to take part in the consultation, visit consultations.tfl.gov.uk/buses/elizabethline  

    A taxi driver who raped vulnerable women after they fell asleep in his car had been sentenced to 12 years in jail. Jahir Hussain, 37, pleaded guilty in May to assaulting three women who got into his car in the early hours of the morning. Hussain, from east London, was registered to work as a mini-cab driver but was not actually working when he picked up his victims. On October 21 Hussain picked up his first victim a 23 year old woman in the Old Street area as she made her way home. She fell asleep and woke up to find Hussain in the back of the car with her, and that he had cut off her clothing. He repeatedly attacked the victim before driving her home. On December 2 December Hussain was again in Old Street at 2am when a 31-year-old woman asked him if he was her pre-booked ...