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• The NHS heroes who came to Manchester's aid in the city's darkest hour

  25-05-2017 23:41 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  NHS workers describe in their own words their experiences of the aftermath of the Manchester bomb attack
  
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• Super League: St Helens 22-19 Wigan Warriors

  25-05-2017 23:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  St Helens fight back to beat rivals Wigan Warriors thanks to a dramatic late Mark Percival try.
  
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• Man Utd transfer targets: Jose Mourinho wants three or four signings

  25-05-2017 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manchester United are likely to limit their summer spending to three or four key signings, with Antoine Griezmann and Michael Keane among those linked.
  
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• UK police end suspension of intelligence sharing with US

  25-05-2017 23:25
  
  Leaks by American officials about details of Manchester bomb investigation had angered British counter-terrorism officersBritish police have resumed sharing information with their counterparts in the US after a brief suspension over a series of leaks by American officials to journalists providing details of the Manchester bomb investigation.
  The suspension, announced early on Thursday morning, lasted less than 24 hours. It was primarily intended to send a message to US law enforcement agencies r
  
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• Manchester attack: UK agrees to resume sharing intelligence with US after assurances - latest

  25-05-2017 23:17
  
  Theresa May had confronted the US president, Donald Trump, over repeated leaks to US media of information related to the Manchester bombing• More people linked to attack may be at large - sources
  • All 22 victims named including seven girls
  • Focus on Libya amid reports Abedi’s father and brother arrested 9.42pm BSTGreater Manchester police have now put out a statement about the operation in Wigan:“As part of a search at an address in Wigan earlier today, a precautiona
  
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• Bikers join tribute rally for Manchester victim Olivia Campbell – video

  25-05-2017 23:14
  
  The mother and step-father of Olivia Campbell, one of the victims from the Manchester attack, organised a rally of hundreds of vehicles from her home in Bury on Thursday to the growing memorial in Manchester’s St Ann’s SquareManchester attack: latestContinue reading...
  
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• Theresa May calls on tech firms to lead fight against online extremism

  25-05-2017 23:00
  
  G7 leaders urged to put pressure on companies such as Facebook and Google, as PM says fight against Isis is shifting from the ‘battlefield to the internet’Theresa May will urge G7 leaders to tell technology firms that they should do more to suppress extremist content online, arguing that fight against Islamic State is shifting from the “battlefield to the internet”. The prime minister will tell fellow leaders at the summit in Sicily that every country should encourage com
  
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• Social media, extremism and fears we are losing the online war | Nick Hopkins

  25-05-2017 23:00
  
  The Manchester attack has again raised questions over whether tech firms are doing enough Theresa May’s initiative to put more pressure on tech companies over online extremism is born of a frustration that can only have been heightened by this week’s attack in Manchester.For all the harsh words and threatened fines that have been thrown at social media companies over recent months, in the UK and across Europe, there is a feeling that they are not doing nearly enough, quickly enough,
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn links foreign policy to growing terror threat

  25-05-2017 23:00
  
  Labour leader will resume electioneering with stress on links between terrorism at home and wars abroadJeremy Corbyn will return to campaigning for the general election on Friday morning after the pause following the Manchester bombing. He plans a speech criticising police cuts, drawing a link between British foreign policy and terror attacks.With less than a fortnight to go before polling day, the Labour leader will tell an audience in London that a government led by his party would provide mor
  
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• Bikers ride from Bury to Manchester city centre to remember Olivia Campbell

  25-05-2017 22:54 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Olivia Campbell, 15, died in the Manchester Arena terror attack on Monday night
  
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• Manchester City Women 1-0 Chelsea Ladies

  25-05-2017 22:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manchester City hold off title rivals Chelsea Ladies to boost their bid for a fourth domestic trophy within nine months.
  
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• Sir Alex Ferguson: Manchester has fantastic people, there’s great unity

  25-05-2017 22:17
  
  • Former manager pays tribute to United following Europa League win
  • ‘We’re all proud of them, it was a great achievement’Sir Alex Ferguson has praised Manchester’s unity in the wake of Monday’s terrorist attack and underlined the significance of United’s Europa League success over Ajax.Manchester City and United have come together to pledge £1m to the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund on a day the city prepared to offer up a defiant message t
  
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• Salman Abedi had connections to gangs and terrorists in Manchester

  25-05-2017 22:17
  
  Bomber linked to criminal gang in south of city, while his father in Libya says he cannot believe his son could have carried out the attackThe Manchester Arena bomber, Salman Abedi, had close connections with criminal gangs as well as known and suspected terrorists in the city, it has emerged. Abedi, 22, associated with a gang that has for years waged war with a rival grouping in south Manchester, the Guardian has learned after speaking to members of the local community. Related: Manchester bomb
  
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• Manchester bombing accomplices may still be at large, police say

  25-05-2017 21:24
  
  Investigators suspect Salman Abedi had help to build device and there may still be more bomb-making materials to be foundManchester attack – live updatesPolice fear accomplices of the Manchester Arena bomber could still be on the loose after raids in the south of the city uncovered materials similar to those used to kill 22 people on Monday.Detectives believe the device used by the suicide bomber Salman Abedi was constructed in Manchester with help from others and that there may be more pe
  
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• Manchester attack: NHS staff heroism and deeds of brave members of the public

  25-05-2017 21:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 999 ambulance operator who took some of the first calls from inside the arena later helped a mother give birth.
  
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• LIVE: Bomb squad called after 'potentially suspicious items' found at house in Wigan

  25-05-2017 20:58 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Eyewitnesses have described seeing armed police officers, bomb disposal units, and at least one ambulance at the scene
  
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• Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi was neither radical nor cowardly | Letter from John Keane

  25-05-2017 20:52
  
  We should choose our words more carefully when describing events like this week’s atrocity and those who carry them out, writes John KeaneIt is probably too late by now, but reading the agonised outpourings over the Manchester atrocity on your letters page (24 May) made me think how inappropriate is the language we have fallen into using to frame these events.We talk of “radicalisation”. This word has a long and noble history in progressive thinking, but has now been hijacked t
  
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• The Guardian view on secrets and leaks: openness is not treason | Editorial

  25-05-2017 20:42
  
  The release of details of the Manchester atrocity by US sources has angered the government, but we need be clear that it has not damaged the investigation“Loose lips sink ships” and “Keep mum – she’s not so dumb” – the spirit of second world war propaganda posters still animates the British response to terrorist atrocities. Lurking in the background is the idea that leakers are unpatriotic by their nature, and that telling the public concrete and inconve
  
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• Man dies following crash involving scooter and car in Moss Side

  25-05-2017 20:06 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The man, who was riding a scooter, died at the scene after crashing into a car on Denmark Road, near to the junction with Upper Lloyd Street
  
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• Hospital trauma units across England on terror attack standby

  25-05-2017 19:27
  
  NHS England advises surgical teams to review staffing after Manchester bomb and be ready for ballistic and blast injuriesNHS hospital trauma units have been put on standby to deal with a potential fresh terrorist attack, possibly happening as soon as this weekend. The NHS has told every hospital in England, including the 27 that are specialist trauma centres, to “prepare for a further incident”.Related: General election 2017: Ukip says May must bear 'some responsibility' for Manchest
  
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• £4.1m has been raised for the victims of the Manchester terror attack. Thank you

  25-05-2017 19:22 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The latest running total - raised in just 48 hours - was confirmed today by the British Red Cross and Manchester council
  
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• Queen visits young victims of 'very wicked' Manchester attack

  25-05-2017 19:05
  
  Monarch sees patients at Royal Manchester children’s hospital and tells staff ‘the awful thing was that everyone was so young’• Manchester bombing: latest updatesThe Queen has spoken to young victims of the Manchester arena suicide bombing on a visit to a hospital in the city, telling them the attack was “very wicked”.She arrived at Royal Manchester children’s hospital on Thursday morning and spoke to staff who had treated victims of the explosion. Relate
  
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• Suicide bomber Salman Abedi travelled from London to carry out attack on Manchester Arena

  25-05-2017 19:03 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Sources have told the M.E.N. that Salman Abedi arrived at Manchester Piccadilly on Monday after getting on a train in the capital
  
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• Schoolboy writes poem for Manchester after 'one of the world's most tragic days'

  25-05-2017 18:57 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Milo Leach, 10, wrote the poem because 'he felt sad' about the Manchester Arena terror attack
  
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• Manchester attack: police chief pays tribute to officer Elaine McIver - latest

  25-05-2017 18:53
  
  Cheshire police chief pays tribute to officer who died in attack, as last victim is named as 15-year-old Megan Hurley• More people linked to attack may be at large - sources
  • Row over US leaks escalates
  • All 22 victims named including seven girls
  • Focus on Libya amid reports Abedi’s father and brother arrested 5.27pm BSTHere is a summary of the latest developments: 5.23pm BSTA bomb disposal unit has been sent to a property in Withington, Manchester, where counter-ter
  
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• Inside Manchester's swish new seafood restaurant Randall & Aubin

  25-05-2017 18:48 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The Soho restaurant has opened its first outpost outside London on Manchester's Bridge Street
  
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• Ukip notches up own goals in attempt to play blame game | John Crace

  25-05-2017 18:45
  
  Paul Nuttall couldn’t put a foot right amid the mayhem of party’s acrimonious manifesto launchThe heckles from Ukip supporters began even before the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg had finished asking her question. “Fake BBC news!”, “Get back down your hole!” and “Learn to speak English!” Talking with a Scottish accent is now a proscribed act of liberal multiculturalism for some Kippers. Keep English for the English. Related: Ukip’s nonsense man
  
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• Manchester attack: Ensuring donations get to victims

  25-05-2017 18:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How can you be sure your donations to help the Manchester victims will go to the right place?
  
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• Manchester's famous faces star in new exhibition to celebrate 20th anniversary of Tampopo restaurant

  25-05-2017 18:33 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Well known Mancs including Rowetta, Clint Boon and Julie Hesmondhalgh have posed up with their favourite Tampopo dish to celebrate 20 years of the Pan-Asian restaurant - which will help raise funds for two charities
  
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• This mum's iPhone saved her life in the Manchester Arena bomb attack after it deflected a metal nut as she held it to her ear

  25-05-2017 18:16 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Lisa Bridgett is recovering in hospital after suffering 'multiple injuries', including losing her finger
  
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• Don't Look Back in Anger becomes symbol of Manchester's spirit

  25-05-2017 18:14
  
  Video of crowd of Mancunians singing Oasis hit following minute’s silence for attack victims is shared around the worldManchester bombing: latest updatesThe moment a crowd of Mancunians spontaneously broke into a rendition of the Oasis song Don’t Look Back in Anger has been shared around the world, cementing the song as a symbol of Manchester’s resilience in the face of tragedy.The impromptu performance came at the end of a nationwide minute’s silence to honour the 22 peo
  
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• Former TV weatherman Fred Talbot convicted of string of sex offences against schoolboys

  25-05-2017 18:08 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Talbot, of Langham Road in Bowdon, Trafford, had denied the allegations, making his victims give evidence during a nine-day trial at Lanark Sheriff Court
  
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• Are journalists prying too far into grief? | Jane Martinson

  25-05-2017 18:02
  
  Media treatment of tragedies such as the Manchester attack is in the spotlight. The industry must remember its reponsibility to the people whose stories it tellsEmma’s mother heard that her daughter had been caught up in a terrorist attack from the Sun newspaper while Emma (not her real name) was still in shock, a long way away, with a disconnected phone and her Facebook account hacked.Four years on, watching children being asked what they had seen the morning after the terrorist attack in
  
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• Manchester bee tattoo appeal: People swarm to support the cause

  25-05-2017 17:58 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Alchemy Tattoo Studio has raised almost £5k for victims and families affected by the Manchester bombing
  
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• Woman survived Manchester bomb thanks to her phone, husband says

  25-05-2017 17:57
  
  Lisa Bridgett’s husband says he believes steel nut from explosion was diverted by iPhone she was speaking into after concertManchester bombing: latest updates
  The husband of a woman who was struck by the blast that claimed 22 victims in Manchester on Monday has said her mobile phone may have saved her life. Lisa Bridgett, 45, was speaking into her iPhone after the Ariana Grande concert when the explosion sent a steel nut towards her head. Related: Manchester bombing appeals raise £2.
  
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• The Queen visits hospital to speak to children injured in 'very wicked' terror attack

  25-05-2017 17:28 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  She paid a visit to the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital where she spoke with young patients being treated there
  
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• The beautiful moment an armed policeman blew a kiss to women offering free hugs after the Manchester bomb attack

  25-05-2017 17:28 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The stunning black and white shot captures the spirit of Manchester
  
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• Tony Walsh’s poem found words where there are no words | Jeanette Winterson

  25-05-2017 17:19
  
  The poet’s appearance at the vigil for the Manchester bombing victims helped us face up to the tragedyTony Walsh’s poem, “This Is The Place”, rapped out by him in fierce lines at Tuesday’s vigil in Manchester, did what public poetry should do – found words where there are no words. We say, “I don’t know what to say.” We say we’re lost for words. Words have lost us. The poem gives us back the words we need.The bombing was a public event,
  
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• Manchester bombing latest updates: Arrests, evacuations and police activity across Greater Manchester

  25-05-2017 17:18 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  All 22 of the confirmed victims have now been named. We will never forget them.
  
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• Manchester terror attack: Police chief says arrests are 'significant' and 'important' items have been seized

  25-05-2017 17:14 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Eight men have been arrested in connection with Monday's attack
  
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• Hundreds of people are queuing in St Ann's Square to lay flowers in memory of those killed in Manchester attack

  25-05-2017 17:14 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  A sea of floral tributes, balloons and candles have been left in the square in the last two days following the horrific bomb attack at Manchester Arena
  
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• Wayne Rooney: Manchester United captain has 'more or less' decided future

  25-05-2017 17:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney says he has "more or less" decided his future at the club.
  
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• Manchester bomber Salman Abedi was banned from a mosque and reported to authorities for his extremist views

  25-05-2017 16:57 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Salman Abedi was banned from a mosque after criticising an imam for "talking bollocks"
  
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• Coronation Street plan permanent memorial to Martyn Hett and the victims of Manchester terror attack

  25-05-2017 16:37 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Corrie bosses have revealed plans for a permanent and touching tribute to superfan Martyn Hett and the victims of the arena attack
  
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• What happened in the Manchester terror attack: Everything we know so far

  25-05-2017 16:34 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  From the immediate aftermath of the bombing to the police investigation which is still taking place - here is everything we know so far about the suicide attack at Manchester Arena
  
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• Dad of Manchester Arena bomber paid tribute to 'lion' Al Qaida commander in chilling Facebook post

  25-05-2017 16:26 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Ramadan Abadi, father of Salman Abedi, hailed Osama Bin Laden's bodyguard as a 'lion' in a 2013 post
  
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• Security set to dominate campaigning after Manchester attack – Election Daily podcast

  25-05-2017 15:57
  
  Jonathan Freedland and Owen Jones are joined by Helen Pidd in Manchester and Ian Cobain to reflect on the terror attack that halted the UK general election campaignThe worst terrorist attack in the UK for more than a decade halted the general election campaign as politicians united to condemn the murder of 22 people at a pop concert in Manchester. Jonathan Freedland and Owen Jones are joined from Manchester by Helen Pidd, the Guardian’s north of England editor; and Ian Cobain, a senior rep
  
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• M.E.N. fundraising appeal following Manchester terror attack tops £1.5 MILLION

  25-05-2017 15:39 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  The ‘We Stand Together’ crowdfunding appeal will remain open to help grieving families over the months ahead
  
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• Families of people killed given chance to visit scene of terror attack at Manchester Arena

  25-05-2017 15:38 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  
  Victoria station is to remain closed into next week as a huge forensic examination of the site is carried out
  
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• Manchester bombing: more people linked to attack may be at large

  25-05-2017 15:36
  
  Investigators also believe there may be more materials connected to the making of bombs that have still to be foundManchester attack – live updatesInvestigators believe there may be more people at large who are part of a terror network linked to the Manchester Arena attack, and that more bomb-making materials have still to be found.
  The investigation into the bombing on Monday continued into a third day with police saying progress had been made. Concern among officials is still so high tha
  
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