This week we are reporting from across the uk asking about life through the pandemic and asking how your community and your business has been affected. Today i am in somerset. Let us go straight to manchester. As everyone knows, a Suicide Bomber evaded the security outside the arena and detonated his Bombjust as the concert was coming to an end, killing 22 people and injuring many more. It should not be necessary to have security to protect us from murderers but while the Terror Threat remains and shows no sign of going away we do need to have in place protective measures which provides security against threats but do not prevent as enjoying the freedoms that are part of our way of life. The enquiry has examined in detail the Security Provision against Terrorist Attacks at the Manchester Arena on 22nd May 2017. I heard evidence from a 53 witnesses over a period of 32 days, lasting 154 hours, and considered over 1000 documents. For many of those witnesses, giving evidence was a very str
Interested to read that the detail in the report before forming a judgment. for now i will talk about some of my overriding impressions. 0n 22nd of may 2017 the threat level was severe. that meant that a terrorist attack was highly likely. whilst the threat was not specific to any particular premises, at the arena was always a possible target for a terrorist. there had been previous attacks in paris and bavaria, which had shown that popular music events such as those held at the arena could be a target. everybody concerned with security at the arena should have been doing theirjob in the knowledge that a terrorist attack might occur on that night. they were not. no one believed it could happen to them.
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This is bbc news. the headlines. the public inquiry into the manchester arena bombing has concluded there were serious shortcomings in security at the venue on the night of the attack. there were a number of opportunities to identify salman abedi s activities as being suspicious on the night before he detonated his bomb. 22 people died in the attack including martyn hett. his mother has been campaigning for all public venues to have some level of counter terorism measures in place. now the recommendations have to be acted upon by the government so that all venues have basic security and no other families have to go through what we have.
Let s go live now to staffordshire where we can speak to sir peter fahy, a former chief constable of greater manchester police. very good to have you with us. thank ou. what very good to have you with us. thank you- what do very good to have you with us. thank you- what do you very good to have you with us. thank you. what do you make very good to have you with us. thank you. what do you make of very good to have you with us. thank you. what do you make of what - very good to have you with us. thank you. what do you make of what you have heard so far i you. what do you make of what you have heard so fa have heard so far i think it is a fair and balanced have heard so far i think it is a fair and balanced report - have heard so far i think it is a fair and balanced report from | have heard so far i think it is a l fair and balanced report from sir john. i agree with dave guest. what you havejust john. i agree with dave guest. what you have just had john. i agree with dave gue