29 May, 2017
Nearly one week after a suicide bomber killed 22 and wounded dozens more at her Manchester Arena appearance, Ariana Grande has announced she plans to return to Manchester for a benefit concert to raise money for attack victims.
When asked how many potential militants the government was anxious about, Rudd said the security services were looking at 500 different potential plots, involving 3,000 people as a "top list", with a further 20,000 beneath that.
"We will continue in honor of the ones we lost, their loved ones, my fans and all affected by this tragedy", Grande ended her note. "To heal, to feel safe and to be themselves", she wrote.
"Our response to this violence must be to come closer together, to help each other, to love more, to sing louder and to live more kindly and generously than we did before".
"They're very significant, these arrests".
A wave of arrests and raids are believed to have closed the net on the terror ring behind the attack, but counter-terror chief Mark Rowley warned "more arrests and more searches" could follow. Though, at least one Georgia father of three of her fans, in a letter that has since gone viral, urged her to take as much time as she needed.
A senior security source told the BBC the threat level was "critical" partly because of concern at so-called "copy-cat" attacks, as well as fears about the Manchester network. These operations, as well as one at Manchester Arena, will continue over the weekend.
They made a further appeal to the public for information about Abedi's activity between the arrival in the United Kingdom and his suicide attack.
But he said there were still "gaps in our understanding" of the plot, as investigators probed Abedi's potential links to jihadis in Britain, Europe, Libya and the Middle East. "We won't let hate win". Home Secretary (interior minister) Amber Rudd said the threat level remained at its highest level, "critical", meaning an attack is expected imminently.
The statement added that two of 11 suspects have been released without charges and nine remain in custody for questioning.
The police statement said one of the last places he went to was a "city centre flat and from there he left to make his way to the Manchester Arena" where the attack took place.
A bomb disposal vehicle was called to an address in Manchester under investigation on Saturday morning, and residents in the area were evacuated.
The CCTV images are the first to show what the 22-year-old looked like when he carried out the deadliest terror attack Britain has seen for more than a decade. A total of 116 people were treated in hospitals after the bombing.
