A teenage girl turned up for her GCSE exam in her pyjamas, hours after she escaped from the Grenfell Tower fire clutching her revision notes.

Ines Alves, 16, fled her 13th floor flat along with family in the early hours of Wednesday morning, as the deadly inferno spread through the North Kensington tower block.

After taking refuge at a friend’s house overnight, the defiant teenager made her way to Sacred Heart School in Hammersmith on Wednesday morning to sit her exam at 9am, wearing the same clothes she fled her home in.

Her father Miguel, who emigrated to the UK from Portugal and works as a chauffeur, woke Ines and her brother Tiago, 20, just after 1am telling them to leave the building by the stairs.