Six people including baby killed in London blaze

A fire has killed six people including three children after sweeping through a tower block in southeast London.

A three-week-old baby and youngsters aged six and seven were among the victims.

The blaze spread rapidly after apparently starting on the fourth floor.

Around 30 people were rescued. At least 20 were taken to hospital, many suffering from the effects of smoke.

Residents described their rush to safety as flames engulfed the 12-storey block of flats run by the local authority in Camberwell.

“I heard people screaming out from the corridors, so my brother’s wife and baby and I just rushed out,” said one man. “I was in bed, as you can see, I don’t have anything on. I just borrowed a top from someone.”

More than 100 firefighters were needed to bring the blaze under control. A systematic floor by floor search followed to ensure all those inside were accounted for. The cause of the fire is not yet known.

The nuclear debate reaches boiling point in Spain

The government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is to decide whether to allow an ageing nuclear plant to remain in service longer than its 40-year normal lifespan.

According to television reports in Spain the Garona nuclear reactor will get the green light until 2013.

Prime Minister Zapatero has emphasised the importance of alternative energy sources.

“The government has to maintain what is strictly necessary concerning nuclear energy, just the absolutely essential, but the emphasis is on renewable energy,” he said.

Workers from the Garona nuclear plant gathered in Madrid to protest the possible closure of the reactor near Burgos in northern Spain in 2013. They faced environmentalists demanding that the plants be closed immediately.

Luis Gonzalez Reyes of Spain’s Ecologists in Action said: “It’s about the greed of some private energy companies such as Endese and Iberdrola to continue making a profit.”

Spain has eight functioning nuclear plants. Some will not turn 40 until 2020. Permits for six of them are due to be renewed by 2011.

Zapatero’s socialists have pledged to gradually replace nuclear power with renewable energy.

Spain is the second biggest solar energy producer in the world and is ranked number three worldwide for the production of wind energy.

Zapatero’s goal is to cut greenhouse gas emissions and the country’s heavy dependence on imported fuels. This is the first test of his electoral pledge to phase out nuclear power.

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