Firefighters tackling the devastating blaze at Grenfell Tower urged senior officers to abandon the policy of telling residents to stay inside their flats, a public inquiry heard.

Senior London Fire Brigade (LFB) officers only decided that the building had to be evacuated an hour and 50 minutes after their crews first arrived at the scene, because until then they were relying on the fire being contained, or "compartmentalised", within the flats.

The eventual decision to evacuate came at the same time as a brigade chief, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Adrian Fenton, arrived at the same conclusion after turning on Sky News and seeing flames engulfing the outside of the building.

The public inquiry into the tragedy, which killed 72 people, heard on Tuesday that there was dissent within the LFB about the efficacy of sticking to its normal policy of telling high rise residents to stay put.