A national newspaper website journalist decided not to attend Press Gazette’s Grenfell Tower debate last night after being told by their editor “nobody’s reading our Grenfell stuff any more”.

The story was related by a friend of the journalist concerned, who said the editor had told him: “After two weeks the hits they were getting fell so much that they could no longer afford to send reporters to cover it any more.”

This contrasted with the frustration expressed by some residents living near Grenfell Tower about the hit and run nature of national media coverage since the disastrous fire which killed 71 people in June.