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Tributes were paid to the 'unique and special' lives lost in the Manchester Arena bombing as evidence at the public inquiry into the atrocity drew to a close.

The man accused of setting up the shooting that killed Ashley Dale in Liverpool has told the jury at his trial "I had no authority to send anyone to anyone’s house and I didn’t."

The mother of one of the men accused of the murder of Ashley Dale cried in court after being accused of telling a 'pack of lies.' Joseph Peers, 29, is alleged by prosecutors to have been the driver in the killing of environmental health officer Ashley.

A man on trial accused of plotting a shooting which ended with a woman being shot dead in her own home may have been fuelled a years old feud, a murder trial heard. Ashley Dale was gunned down in her home in Liverpool after a man broke in and opened fire with a Skorpion sub-machine gun, the Echo reports.

Glastonbury festival last year, a court in Liverpool has heard this week.Ashley Dale, 28, died after she was shot at her home in Liverpool on August 21 2022.At Liverpool Crown Court this week, the prosecution said Dale’s partner, Lee Harrison, had been the intended target. He was not in the house at the time.

BBC.It found that an undercover reporter was able to pay extra to complete a mandatory six-day training course in a day and half, and missed out on crucial first aid training. The BBC says it found similar instances across other training providers.Such practices are against regulations put in place to safeguard people coming to harm at public events.The industry regulator, The Security Industry Authority (SIA) said the evidence presented to them by the BBC suggested criminality and is now urgently referring the issue to police.The BBC presented their report to Paul Greaney KC – legal counsel to the inquiry into the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.

Thousands of people are 'exposed to danger' because healthcare provision at major events is 'unregulated', the Manchester Arena Inquiry heard today.

Warring alleged gang bosses appear to have settled their long-running feud with a fist-fight in Dubai, the Manchester Evening News. has learned. Michael 'Cazza' Carroll and Stephen Britton - named in gangland trials as the leaders of rival Salford outfits - took part in a 'straightener' witnessed by their supporters, according to gangland sources.

Greater Manchester Police was not providing the recommended hours of first aid training to its officers at the time of the Manchester Arena attack, the public inquiry into the atrocity was told.

direct to your inboxEvaluation of a major counter-terrorism training exercise held a year before the Manchester Arena bombing raised 'significant issues', the public inquiry into the atrocity heard evidence could show.Exercise 'Winchester Accord' was held overnight on May 9, 2016 - a live exercise involving the scenario of a marauding terrorist firearms attack on the Trafford Centre.Paul Greaney QC, counsel to the inquiry, said it formed part of a national programme.The exercise, he said,

hereAs a result, no British Transport Police officer was patrolling the station for 40 minutes, between 9pm and 9.35pm, on May 22, 2017, the inquiry was told.PC Bullough and PCSO Renshaw 'just missed' Abedi walking to the City Room from a tram platform after they resumed their patrols, counsel to the inquiry Paul Greaney QC said.He walked past PCSOs Lewis Brown and Jon Morrey in the station.All four BTP officers patrolled the City Room area as crowds entered the Arena.But despite instructions

Family members of Arena bombers Salman and Hashem Abedi are refusing to assist the public inquiry into the atrocity.Statements have been requested from their parents, father Ramadan Abedi and mother Samia Tabbal, as well as from their older brother and younger sister, Jomana.Suicide bomber Salman's younger brother Hashem Abedi, who is now serving a 55-year minimum prison sentence, has also been approached by the inquiry team.But counsel to the inquiry, Paul Greaney QC, said on the third day of

They 'showed the very best of humanity' and acted 'selflessly and without apparent regard for the danger they themselves might be in', said counsel to the inquiry Paul Greaney QC. One British Transport Police (BTP) officer, who raced to the scene of the blast in the City Room area, later said she could 'only describe it as a war zone there'.