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At least six people are dead after a huge fire raged through the night at a west London tower block, and police expect that number to rise.

Eyewitnesses described people trapped in the burning Grenfell Tower in north Kensington, screaming for help and yelling for their children to be saved.

The Conservative MP Mike Penning was a firefighter and a fire safety minister under David Cameron. He told Martha Kearney he had never seen a tower block fire move so fast.

"Those firefighters going in there would have never, ever experienced that sort of fire...before," he said.

(Photo: Firefighters attempt to control a blaze as smoke billows from London tower block that caught fire. Credit: AFP/Getty)