Grenfell Tower is 24 storeys high. Inside are 128 homes. On 14th June 2017 a fire breaks out in Grenfell Tower. What happens over the next 24 hours will change how we view social housing forever. Grenfell Tower: Minute by Minute, captions, Channel 5 2018
A Public Inquiry into the causes of the Grenfell Tower fire has begun. 71 people are confirmed to have died in the Grenfell Tower fire. ibid.
What happened at Morecambe Bay should have led to improvements of maternity services across the UK. Poor care had contributed to the deaths of eleven babies and a mother at Furness General Hospital. An Inquiry in 2015 found a dysfunctional maternity unit and heard about an overemphasis on normal birth at any cost. Panorama: Maternity Scandal: Fighting for the Truth, mother, BBC 2022
In 1995 Panorama got a scoop its rivals the world over wanted. It changed history. Now an independent inquiry for the BBC has found that reporter Martin Bashir used forgeries to get the interview, deceiving Princess Diana and her brother. Martin Bashir spun a web of elaborate lies to win the trust of the Princess. For 25 years the BBC defended its global scoop but now stands accused of a failure of integrity. Martin Bashir’s reputation lies in ruins described by the Inquiry as dishonest and devious. Panorama: Princess Diana, Martin Bashir & the BBC, BBC 2021
What happened at Morecambe Bay should have led to improvements of maternity services across the UK. Poor care had contributed to the deaths of eleven babies and a mother at Furness General Hospital. An inquiry in 2015 found a dysfunctional maternity unit and heard about an overemphasis on normal birth at any cost. Panorama: Maternity Scandal: Fighting for the Truth, mother, BBC 2022
Perhaps the value of the Longitudinal Study [1971-1975] has been to confirm the reality of the health gap between classes. Horizon: Death of the Working Classes 1988
The Health Divide: Inequalities in Health in 1980s. ibid. Margaret Whitehead, Health Educational Council report, March 1987
In 1969 after considering thousands of reports Project Bluebook was closed. The conclusion: there was nothing worth further study. Horizon: The Case of the UFOs, BBC 1982
The Hutton Report is published … ‘Hutton vindicates Blair, Campbell, and damns the BBC’. David Dimbleby, Days that Shook the BBC II: Trust Matters, news, BBC 2022
Hutton Report: ‘An appalling and really quite disgraceful piece of judicial nonsense.’ ibid. Ian Hislop
Douglas, Isle of Man 1973 Summerland: the deadliest fire in the British Isles since the Blitz … One of the largest indoor holiday parks in Europe … Three boys smoking cigarettes had set fire to a crazy golf kiosk … ‘Floor to ceiling flames … a waterfall of flames’ … Fifty people died … The Inquiry found that the building had been wrapped in highly flammable materials causing the fires’ rapid spread and high death toll. The Inquiry also found the advice to people to stay put in Summerland seriously hindered the evacuation. The Fires that Foretold Grenfell, BBC 2018
In the hot summer of 1666 the city of London was consumed by a great fire. 13,000 houses were destroyed. 89 churches were incinerated. 80% of the building stock was erased. No other city had burned like this since Roman times. Great Fire of London: The Untold Story, BBC 2010
The House of Commons appointed a committee to inquire into the causes of the disaster. ibid.
Suspicions about Dutch vengeance surfaced in the parliamentary inquiry. ibid.
The Inquiry heard evidence from families, witnesses and experts and examined over 400 cases … ‘I have found that Shipman killed 200 patients. That number is in addition … ’ Shipman Files: A Very British Crime Story III, Dame Janet Smith, inquiry, BBC 2020
A 2002 Inquiry into Shipman’s crimes estimated that the number of deaths he was responsible for was at least 215. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s4e1: Harold Shipman, Sky Crime 2020
Shipman: The British government sets up a public inquiry. Killer Trials s1e5: Do No Harm, Youtube 2016
The Bush White House ... did everything in its power to derail an open Inquiry. Then, when faced with the inevitable, the press and his aides sought to limit its scope, its access and its funding. Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair editor
We were struck by the relative thinness of the intelligence base. Lord Butler’s Inquiry into Intelligence that led to war
The final verdict on the Iraq War which cost countless lives and left a country in chaos: Chilcot Report. Iraq: The Final Judgment, BBC 2016
July 2016: The Chilcot report into Britain’s role in the Iraq War is published. It is critical of Tony Blair’s Labour government. Blair & Brown: The Labour Revolution IV, captions
Murdoch’s public shame leads to a public inquiry … Four of Britain’s living prime ministers are called to testify [Leveson Inquiry]. The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty II: The Rebel Alliance, BBC 2020
These are the faces of the men convicted of Britain’s worst ever terrorist attack: the Birmingham pub bombings of 1974 in which 21 people died. These are the faces of the same men after 16 years wrongful imprisonment. The gravest miscarriage of justice in living memory. World in Action: The Birmingham 6 Their Own Story, ITV 1991
The release of the 6 men has led to a royal commission to investigate the criminal justice system in this country. It has also brought calls for the resignation of the Lord Chief Justice – Lord Lane – who refused an earlier appeal. ibid.
Urgently to enquire into child protection procedures in Humberside Police and Cambridgeshire Constabulary in the light of the recent trial and conviction of Ian Huntley for the murder of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells.
In particular to assess the effectiveness of the relevant intelligence-based record keeping, the vetting practices in those forces since 1995 and information sharing with other agencies, and to report to the Home Secretary on matters of local and national relevance and make recommendations as appropriate. Michael Bichard, Inquiry December 2003
The Air Force’s commitment to act on the UFO problem would result in one of the biggest military investigations in military history. The Air Force, which had secretly been investigating UFOs since 1947, were forced to set up an open Inquiry. Called Project Bluebook it promised to investigate each separate sighting report that was filed by the general public. Nick Cook, Are UFOs Real? 1/2
George Carey told the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in 2018 he now accepts he should have passed the letters to the Police. George Carey told the Inquiry he ‘couldn’t believe that a Bishop in the church of God could do such evil things.’ Exposed: The Church’s Darkest Secret, captions, BBC 2020
Tonight: the legacy of Steven Lawrence. But twenty years on how much has really changed? Tonight: Stephen Lawrence – 20 Years On, ITV 2013
Stabbed to death by a gang of white youths in 1993 a Public Inquiry into the crime and the way it was handled branded the Metropolitan Police institutionally racist and called for widespread social reform ... We remember Stephen Lawrence. ibid.
Stephen’s death shocked the nation: both because the brutal manner in which it was committed and the way the police handled the case. ibid.
In the wake of Dowd’s arrest, Mayor Dinkins appointed the Mollen Commission to investigate corruption within the NYPD. As a result, dozens of officers across the city’s precincts were arrested. Precinct Seven Five aka The Seven Five, 2014
147 prison staff and 47 inmates were injured during the riot. One prisoner and one prison officer later died in hospital. Alan Lord served an additional 10 years in prison for his role in the riot. John Murray served an additional 4 years. Published in the wake of the riots, the Woolf Report led to major improvements across the prison system. Including an end to slopping out. In the time since the riot, the prison population in England and Wales has risen by 74%. Strangeways Riot: 25 Days of Mayhem, captions, Channel 5 2022
Lord Mersey’s Inquiry led to crew changes in shipping, including more lifeboats, twenty-four hour radio communication and the formation of the Ice Patrol. History’s Greatest Mysteries with Laurence Fishburne s1e1, History 2021
No fingerprints found on any of the items … these included a knife he allegedly used to kill himself, a water bottle … some empty pill packets, a watch, a pair of glasses and a mobile phone, yet when his body was found he wore no gloves: this was not even mentioned at the Hutton Inquiry. Killing Kelly, 2021