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Asked if he could put himself in the position of Grenfell Tower residents, Nick Paget-Smith said he had "thought of little else" since he had heard of the fire and the people trapped in the tower. "I can hardly imagine the awfulness of those moments," he said.

Asked if he would resign, Mr Paget-Brown said: "That is not a matter for now," adding that his priority as leader of the council was to provide support for vulnerable people.

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He said his immediate priority was to make sure the council supported people left vulnerable by the disaster.

"There's a huge diversity in the borough," he said. "The borough has worked well in terms of supporting people from a diversity of backgrounds and investing the money that we can."

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Nick Pagent-Brown is asked by The World This Weekend whether he will resign. "That is not a matter for now," he says.

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Kensington and Chelsea council leader Nick Paget-Brown said the emergency operation was drawing support from other London boroughs because the disaster was too great for one borough alone to handle.

He did not accept that his council had focused on its rich residents, and said it had worked to improve housing stock and social services.

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Nick Paget-Brown, Conservative leader of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, has told the BBC he feels "traumatised" by the tragedy.

"I feel terrible by the whole situation we find ourselves in," he told The World This Week on Radio Four, saying he welcomed the announcement of a public enquiry.

Ealing Council has taken over at the relief efforts at the Westway Sports Centre from Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council, it has now been confirmed.

The sports centre has been transformed into a makeshift shelter for people affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.

Sprinkler systems for the few... tower block as candle... some of the cartoons posted on Twitter.

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The Conservative leader of Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council, Nick Paget-Brown, will be appearing on the BBC's The World This Weekend, very shortly.

Stay tuned for live updates or listen to the live interview here.

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Shadow communities secretary Andrew Gwynne has denied suggestions that Labour is stirring up emotions, during an appearance on BBC One's Sunday Politics.

He told the show: "I don't think that we are stirring it up. I would hope that we have been fully responsible in reflecting the concerns, the anxieties, the hurt and the worry or those residents in Kensington."

Asked about former shadow cabinet minister Clive Lewis's call on Twitter, external to "burn neoliberalism, not people", he told the programme: "I think it is really important that we are measured in our approach.

"We need to calm things down."

BBC reporter Mark Lobel says local residents have been telling him this morning that the volunteers are "at breaking point".

Mark has been outside Notting Hill Methodist Church, where one of the services for the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire was taking place.

He said: "There are expected to be government civil servants down here, on the ground, helping out.

"Whether they are in hi-vis jackets or whether they are meant to be replacing the volunteers, there has been no sign of them so far.

"I've been speaking to residents, speaking to people who've been here all morning, I've been speaking to the police and they haven't noticed a change yet."

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Lotifa Begum from Islamic Relief said she was "shocked and appalled" at the uncoordinated efforts but praised the response of the community.

She told BBC Radio 4's William Crawley that victims must be supported by services sensitive to their faith needs.

Father's Day cards have been left close to Grenfell Tower in memory of those caught up in the tragedy.

The tributes could be seen amongst the growing number of flowers, candles and messages placed near Latymer Community Church on Sunday.

Amongst the poignant cards left in memory of lost loved ones, some of the posters and messages also express anger and dismay.

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Andrea Leadsom, leader of the House of Commons, was asked by BBC One's Sunday Politics if she felt a sense of shame over the disaster.

"Totally, yes, of course, of course," she said.

"We all think what should we have done, could we have done? It's just unbearable. This cannot happen in the 21st Century and yet it has."

She said Prime Minister Theresa May had sent in senior civil servants to deal with the aftermath so issues could be "addressed much more quickly and with greater experience and precision".

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Work on a charity single to help the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire is taking shape. The idea was announced by pop impresario Simon Cowell.

Tokio Myers and Louisa Johnson are among musicians who turned up today at a recording studio in west London to cover Simon and Garfunkel's hit Bridge Over Troubled Water.

Fellow star Paloma Faith said she was disappointed at the Government's "mind-boggling" response to the victims, saying the £5m emergency fund for residents was too small.

"They've not lost just their families, they've lost their neighbours, they've lost their community, everything they know," she said.

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Church services have been held across the city to remember the victims.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan was among those in attendance, joining a service at St Clement's Church in west London.

Mr Khan arrived with his wife Saadiya and walked silently into the church, which has been used as a relief centre in the wake of the blaze.

It is the same church where the Prime Minister met a group of victims, residents, volunteers and community leaders on Friday, as an angry crowd outside directed shouts of "shame on you" towards her.

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The Rev Dr Alan Everett from nearby St Clement's Church praised the efforts of volunteers as the tragedy unfolded.

Dr Everett was alerted to the fire at 02:45 and opened the church, he told BBC Radio 4's William Crawley.

As people came with food and water, "the help just kept on flooding in", he said.

However, Dr Everett said the immediate relief effort was carried out by reception centres, churches and different community organisations "on their own".

"We relied so heavily on local volunteer support," he said. "It was a volunteer-led response and it was magnificent."

NHS England said 18 patients remain in hospital after the Grenfell Tower fire including nine who are in critical care.

The hospitals providing care include King's College, Chelsea and Westminster, the Royal Free and St Mary's.