Live News - Police Evacuating Manchester Area

[Smowball]

All around Arndale Centre they are pushing people back and saying area is not safe. Live on news.

[Peter Pedant]

boozums heaving - crying on camera
honestly some of the english are drama queens

they also blew up a pile of clothes a few hours ago

[Baldric]

A man has been arrested in the Arndale.

[Lynn_M]

The chickens have certainly came home to roost, all because of immigration. We don't need people of different cultures from far-away lands. It only leads to trouble, as we've seen during the last 24 hours

[-Talbot-]

Am I the only one who doesn't subscribe to the 'Peter Pedant is a treasure' movement?

[Kromovaracun]

"We don't need people of different cultures from far-away lands. It only leads to trouble, as we've seen during the last 24 hours"

Bit of a sweeping generalisation, no?

[Islay]

So Lynn will you come back and apologise to all immigrants if this person us found to be British born and bred?

[Baldric]

No Talbot, you're not.

[anneasquith]

"" chickens home to roost "" far away lands" Lynn, this is not a fairy tale it's real life.

[Lynn_M]

@Kromovaracun: "Bit of a sweeping generalisation, no?"

No, it's the truth.

@Islay: Sure. I don't think I'll have to, somehow. Are you going to come on and appologise to me once it's confirmed what I said?

[Cloverjo]

I can't watch any more news about it. Too upsetting. Sky news had just put up a picture and name of the first victim to be identified. What about the friends and family who haven't been told yet. Seeing that on TV would be shocking.

Lynn_M, I really think you should stop your rantings about people from "faraway lands". We still don't know the nationality or religion of the bomber. And even if he is Pakistani or a Muslim, it doesn't mean all others would commit such an atrocity.

[anotheoldgit]

Islay
/// So Lynn will you come back and apologise to all immigrants if this person us found to be British born and bred? ///

As been said many times on AB, "Being born in a stable does not make a man a horse".

[Islay]

SO AOG what does make a person British?

[Mamyalynne]

One thing is positive, when I turned off my computer last night after the news broke, I predicted with a sinking certainty what many of the comments on here today would be.

Sad.

[Cloverjo]

AOG, I think Bernard Manning used a variant of that line as a "joke".

[anotheoldgit]

Cloverjo

/// And even if he is Pakistani or a Muslim, it doesn't mean all others would commit such an atrocity. ///

Perhaps not, that would be ridiculous and no one is saying that either, but it can be safely said that a vast amount of them are very prominent in that field already.

[Cloverjo]

It was a tedious argument then and it is now. My OH trots it out every now and again because he knows it winds me up.

[Cloverjo]

The vast majority of Pakistanis and Muslims are bombers? I don't think so.

[-Talbot-]

Again ... please explain the reasoning of 'British born and bred'?

I always ask and I always will.

So?

[Islay]

Talbot, the excuse for banning immigration is because they are possible terrorists - my question is what if they are British born and bred and not immigrants - how does that reason we should ban immigration!

[pastafreak]

It's lovely to feel welcomed by people like Lynne. Maybe she should think before she makes her sweeping and bigoted statements.