Such terrible news from Manchester :( . My heart goes out to all affected by this atrocity.
Solidarity from Italy and a prayer for all the victims.
Marco
Just woken up to this news, all love and prayers to our friends across the Pennines.
France supports the British people in this painful ordeal.
Shocking news, my thoughts and condolences to those that were involved.
Been trying to find the words to convey my thoughts on the destruction of twenty two futures in my home cityand failed miserably. Best I can do is pass this on from tonights vigil in Albert square about the spirit of a great city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=josaDi9ZBvE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=josaDi9ZBvE)
The rest of my family still live in and around Manchester. Thankfully they are all well. But so many other families, needlessly torn apart. My heart goes out to everyone touched by this horror.
At least one family from our younger sons' school was there, but are OK. It is likely that a number from our oldest son's much larger school would have been there, thankfully we have not heard of any problems there either.
Targetting the innocent is always bad, but this was specifically a mainly child and youth concert :censored:
It does hit you. Especially as a month ago we took our eldest son to his first ever live concert, to see The Saw Doctors at the Apollo.
Saw this on the early morning news and immediately rang/woke up my sister to check none of the family were there. To then hear later on the youngest death was an 8 year old girl from my home town (Leyland) was extremely shocking. My condolences to all friends and relatives of those caught up in this, and my thoughts are with parents who don't know where/how their children are.
Hi all,
The events of the past 24 hours back in my home city have been horrific and unjustified no matter what your race colour or religion and have saddend me.
But the way in which Mancs of all race creed religion and colour came to aid and try to help those in need makes me proud to be a fellow MANC
So Sad for those lost souls, especially to the youngest 8 year old who used to live in Tarleton, Eight-year-old Saffie Rose Roussos was at a concert to hear her favourite singer. She has hit my heart with so much sadness, has all those that died, but more so Saffie because she lived not 5 minutes away from me, in between my real home town of Southport and now Longton. The lose of so many innocent young people who were in many ways enjoying life is so hard to take in, it puts all other things in life in perspective, put our differences to one side and get on with our lives, it is too short to lose. :( :( :(
Truly horrible and completely senseless. My heart goes out to all the families who lost loved ones. As a father it brings a lump to my throat to those who are still waiting for news about their kids.
This story is (quite rightly) still dominating the news stateside.
Also here in Australia. Shocking.
My prayers and solidarity sent out to you in England and Manchester. What a senseless tragedy.
I still have no words for what has happened. It's been beautiful seeing all and sundry pulling together though, a reminder of what is great about Greater Manchester.
Heres hoping that after this terrible tragedy that this weekends Manchester concert will be peaceful, loving and most of all safe, Bless everyone involved.
My wife and I were enjoying a River Cruise betyween Budapest and Amsterdam when we saw the shocking news one morning on Sky News. As the ship is Auistralian owned there were a lot of Aussies and Kiwis on board as well as a number of Brits, some from around Lancashire. We went down for breakfast and it was the ony topic of conversation with our Aussie and Kiwi friends keen to ensure that we Brits were OK. After we came home on Monday we drove into Leyland to see all the tributes laid in front of the Chippy that the little girl's parents run in the town. What a marvellous gesture of support from the whole town to the family.
My wife and I were both born and brought up in Oldham just six miles NE of Manchester and we met in the Hunt's Bank offices of British Railways and the former HQ of the L&Y Railway (which is one of the reasons why I use use the name Lankyman. It was was my first proper job and the start of a long career inthe Railway Industry. I was part of the Project Team that dealt with the rebuilding of Manchester Victoria station in order to reduce its size so that the land could be used for the Arena. 21 years ago two of my staff were working unauthorised overtime in Rail House, next to Piccadilly station, when the IRA bomb went off and blew the roof off Victoria station (It only got rebuilt last year.) When I got to work on the Monday I had two very shocked ladies to deal with. Of course I should have disciplined them but instead ended up counselling them. We all think that these things can never happen to us, only to other people, but these incidents are just a little bit too close for comfort and very sobering.
My thoughts and prayers go out to all those who have been affected.
Ron