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    Tommy Robinson's appearance on Good Morning Britain has sparked outrage as the EDL founder attacked the Quran as a violent and cursed book the day after the Finsbury Park terror attack. Piers Morgan branded Mr Robinson a bigoted lunatic and told him to show some damn respect for people’s religious beliefs as Mr Robinson held up the Islamic holy book. Mr Morgan said: Now you're sounding like a complete lunatic. You're sounding like a bigoted lunatic. You are an Islamophobe who hates Islam, you basically think all Muslims are to blame. What you are doing now is deliberately inflammatory, its deliberately poisonous, and you are having the complete opposite effect to the one you say you have. Viewers took to social media to react with anger. One wrote: I feel sick. Why would y...

    The Met Office has issued the second highest heatwave alert for all of Britain as the country endures some extreme heat. The level three amber heatwave warning is one behind a national emergency and has been issued from 9am Monday to 9am Thursday. On Monday the temperature reached 32C (91F) at RAF Northolt, west London. The amber warning is issued when there is a 90% probability of heatwave conditions according to the Met Office website. It means social and healthcare workers should ensure high-risk groups including the elderly, children and those with medical conditions, are kept cool and hydrated. The NHS has issued advice and guidelines on the www.nhs.uk website to help people deal with the blazing sunshine. NHS advice includes urging people to: Spend time in the shade ...

    The newly-elected MP for Kensington has claimed that Grenfell victims who used to live in the tower are having to live in cars and parks. According to Sky News, Emma Dent Coad spoke at a Justice for Grenfell march on Monday night and spoke of the total chaos in the borough. People have been sleeping in cars and in parks because they don't know where to go and they aren't being looked after, she said. Secondly they need to be re-housed permanently and thirdly they need a long-term care package... people who'll always be there for them. It has been confirmed that at least some victims have been rehomed in hotels. The government said 126 hotel places have been given to families while 78 were due to be homed in properties locally or in a neighbouring borough by Monday night. T...

    Every council in England has been ordered to make an urgent list of buildings that have the cladding suspected of speeding up the Grenfell Tower fire. The government has demanded two lists - all buildings with aluminium composite panels and all buildings over 18 metres high - by the end of today in a bid to stop other towers being a death trap. All the latest news, views and opinion on the Grenfell tragedy Town halls will then be ordered from tomorrow to send samples of any ACM cladding for government-run fire tests. Cladding was suspected of speeding up the blaze that killed at least 79 people in the 24-storey block in west London. Yesterday Chancellor Philip Hammond appeared to say the type of cladding used on the tower was already banned in the UK on blocks more than 18...