ground floor

She said Dr Brooks stabbed him in the abdomen and, having already spread the liquid around the ground floor of the house, he "made his escape".

He said the restaurant was on the ground floor, and believes that it is the only room - or at least one of the few rooms - that didn't collapse.

The LFB said half of the ground floor of the building is alight.

Most incongruously of all, outside a makeshift plastic doorway on a corner of the ground floor, next to piles of rubble and rubbish, stands a headless mannequin, wearing a wedding gown.

The flames spread through the four-storey hotel in central London via ducting, damaging parts of the ground floor and half of the second floor and destroying the third floor and roof, London Fire Brigade said.