Scots mum of teen Manchester Arena bombing victim tells of how world was 'torn apart' after attack

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Manchester Arena bombing, the public inquiry into the terror attack heard. Marion MacLeod had arrived outside the arena to collect her daughter Eilidh, 14, and her friend who had been to the Ariana Grande concert.

Mrs MacLeod, from the island of Barra in Scotland's Outer Hebride s, had travelled south with her daughter, a music lover and bagpipe player, staying over in a hotel in Manchester close to the Arena.

Her daughter, the middle one of three sisters, was "beyond excited" to be attending the event, Mrs MacLeod said in a statement read to the inquiry, the pair using Facetime and swapping messages during the show.Mrs MacLeod said: "She was loving life and I told her to sing her heart out and dance the night away."I told that I would be.