The Manchester Arena survivor who wanted to be here today - but is paying her own amazing tribute instead

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

Today Chloe Allinson should be here, placing spring flowers for the 22 who died in the Manchester Arena bomb. It has taken her three years to summon the strength and courage to return to the city.

She was inside Manchester Arena with her uncle, Isaac Foster, on May 22, 2017, and the memories of what she saw and escaped scarred her deeply.

But lockdown means she cannot make the journey. Still, she will remember, in a way which shows how far the ripples of anguish caused by the bombing travelled.

Chloe, now 15, lives around 100 miles away in Lazonby, a village in the Lower Eden Valley of Cumbria, eight miles from Penrith, and 24 miles from the Scottish borders.