So we’re about to reach 12 months since the attacks, still not really able to comprehend what occurred. So close to home for many reasons. I just hope that all those affected are getting all the support they need.

 

Incredible front page on MEN tomorrow, well worth checking out.

I looked after one of the victims who was hurt in the blast when they arrived at RBH.

 

Some of the stories they told we will haunt me for a long, long time......

I was out on my bike on Sunday and stopped in Goostrey for a quick breather. The bench I chose to sit on was dedicated to Nell Jones who lived in the village and was one of the 22 who sadly lost their lives. 

So we’re about to reach 12 months since the attacks, still not really able to comprehend what occurred. So close to home for many reasons. I just hope that all those affected are getting all the support they need.

 

Incredible front page on MEN tomorrow, well worth checking out.

 

You're right its an amazing front page.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-44205332

I’ll never forget Joel and Launa on heart FM starting their morning show in floods of tears.

 

They played that symphonie song straight after.

 

Can’t believe a year has passed already.

I left Arena Point a couple of hours before, I was taken aback by the number of kids at the gig... I missed out on tickets by moments, taken by one of my friends whose daughter survived by taking a wrong turning.

 

It's still sickening

My mates step daughter was there and her dad was badly injured and is very lucky to be alive. truly horrible. 

I left Arena Point a couple of hours before, I was taken aback by the number of kids at the gig... I missed out on tickets by moments, taken by one of my friends whose daughter survived by taking a wrong turning.

 

It's still sickening

 

 

I worked at Arena until a few months before it happened and always thought there was potential there for something terrible to happen, such were the scenes on the entrances on a mega busy night. Corners were cut on searching/tickets etc to say the least. As it happened, he didn't even need to get into the place to cause carnage.

 

Knew of a couple of people who were working that night and the things they saw wont ever leave them.

 

Love that city, there's nowhere else like it.

I drove into work that morning and couldn't help shed a tear. It was horrific and I'm sure as with every parent my thought was "imagine if one of my little ones had been there".

 

Not all that much affects me, but the targeting and harm of innocent kids makes me feel absolutely sick.

I worked at Arena until a few months before it happened and always thought there was potential there for something terrible to happen, such were the scenes on the entrances on a mega busy night. Corners were cut on searching/tickets etc to say the least. As it happened, he didn't even need to get into the place to cause carnage.

 

I'm not sure what could have been done to prevent this atrocity or what corners were cut and by whom. This was carried out by what looked like a member of the public going in the same direction as other members of the public who were there to pick up sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, etc.

 

Go on then, if you were still working there on that night, what do you reckon could or should have been done that the management hadn't put in place?

 

 

I'm not sure what could have been done to prevent this atrocity or what corners were cut and by whom. This was carried out by what looked like a member of the public going in the same direction as other members of the public who were there to pick up sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, etc.

 

Go on then, if you were still working there on that night, what do you reckon could or should have been done that the management hadn't put in place?

 

 

 

 

Wow hang on, re-read what I put. On busy nights with hundreds, thousands of people clamouring at the doors to get in often walking up as close to start time as they could, there were many - very many - who were allowed to get in without so much as a ticket scan let alone a bag search, I saw it myself countless times.

 

As for the attack itself, as security arrangements stood at the time, there isn't anything anyone could have done to prevent it. I didn't say any different.

Four days earlier there were few bag checks for Take That; allsorts smuggled in. We share the same cleaners, and you would hear tales of weapons, bottles etc being found at the end of the night

I'm not sure what could have been done to prevent this atrocity or what corners were cut and by whom. This was carried out by what looked like a member of the public going in the same direction as other members of the public who were there to pick up sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, etc.

 

Go on then, if you were still working there on that night, what do you reckon could or should have been done that the management hadn't put in place?

 

 

Did you stop reading his post halfway through?

very sombre city this morning.

 

walked through St Annes Square and vans and camera crews everywhere again. cannot believe it was 12 months since they were last there felt like yesterday.

 

minutes silence at 2:30 will be quite moving right across the city 

Watched a bit on breakfast this morning. Every time I see the video of that little 8 year old dancing and singing it wrenches deep down.

 

With the best will in the world I'm not going to watch any more. It begins to eat at your soul and fuck with your mind.

 

RIP the 22 and best wishes to the survivors.

You're right its an amazing front page.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-44205332

 

Bit of dust just looking at that.

 

Viewing the events form relatively afar and the reaction, I'm convinced no other city would have responded with such togetherness and positivity.

Bit of dust just looking at that.

 

Viewing the events form relatively afar and the reaction, I'm convinced no other city would have responded with such togetherness and positivity.

 

as they say often, they "do things differently here"

 

superb place 

Crowd gathering at the cathedral. Understandably more of a police presence in and around Victoria

A year ago I was working for a company that supplied stuff to deal with trauma wounds - spent nearly a week virtually camped in MRI and the Children's hospital sorting out deliveries. The horrible thing was seeing the relatives walking around trying to locate family members - absolute shells of human beings. Quite a few of the victims had been put in ambulances and had no i.d. and had to go to wherever the ambulance took them which could have been any hospital nearby (a few ended up in Leeds). I simply can't imagine hearing about the disaster and immediately legging it to the hospital only to find no record of admission of your family member, particularly if it was a child. Just horrendous. No idea how those people coped with it all

I had a walk through St Ann's Square about 1pm today. Random people just sharing their experiences and chatting about the event whilst placing flowers or posting their own little notes to the trees.

 

Loads of painted rocks were about too for people to take and place somewhere else. Apparently painted by schools and youth groups throughout Manchester.

 

It felt nice seeing that it had brought people together in a weird way.

 

Anyway, RIP the 22.

I had a walk through St Ann's Square about 1pm today. Random people just sharing their experiences and chatting about the event whilst placing flowers or posting their own little notes to the trees.

 

Loads of painted rocks were about too for people to take and place somewhere else. Apparently painted by schools and youth groups throughout Manchester.

 

It felt nice seeing that it had brought people together in a weird way.

 

Anyway, RIP the 22.

I was there at the same time. Very emotional reading the messages and seeing all those flowers. RIP to the 22