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Updated at 12.10pm
GREATER MANCHESTER POLICE (GMP) are evacuating the area around a car which they believe to “significant” to the investigation of last week’s terrorist attack.
Police investigating the attack on the Manchester Arena last Monday in which 22 people were killed said they had discovered a car at Devell House, not far from Banff Road in Manchester.
Officers are currently at the location and assessing the car.
There is a 100m cordon in place around the area and people are being advised to avoid there.
Police are evacuating the entire location and have asked the public for their cooperation and understanding.
“We are working closely with our partners to ensure public safety and to relocate people while we carry out this precautionary measure to ensure everyone’s safety,” police said.
Detective Chief Superintendent Russ Jackson said that the discovery of the car was “potentially a significant development in the investigation”.
“We are very interested in anything people can tell us about the movements of this car, and who was in it, over the past months,” said Jackson.
We are also interested in any information about who may have had access to the car or who may have gone to and from it.
CCTV
Earlier, police released new CCTV images of suicide bomber Salman Abedi in a bid to gain more information from the public about his movements before he detonated the bomb at the Ariana Grande concert.
Police are still unsure how and when he acquired the parts to make the bomb, and do not yet know why Abedi went to an address at the Banff Road area in Rusholme, or who he spoke to there.
By releasing images of Abedi at other locations, police hope to jog the memory of someone who may have information that could help them with their investigation.
Jackson said that GMP continued to make “significant progress” in the investigation.
He said: “What we still need to understand is if he had any of the bomb parts in his possession before he went out of the country, this is why we are tracking his movements so carefully.
We have had police officers conducting house to house enquiries but we are still not satisfied why Abedi went [to Banff Road] and its vital we understand exactly where he went there and who he spoke to in these final days before the attack.
Jackson urged anyone who may have called them before to call again. “We need your help as we piece together what happened in the lead up to the attack and if Abedi was helped by anyone,” he said.
He added that any information someone has “may be insignificant” but it could be essential to the case.
Benefit concert
Meanwhile, a star-studded lineup will be performing on Sunday at the city’s Old Trafford cricket ground to raise money for families of the victims of the attack.
The “One Love Manchester” gig at the city’s has already attracted acts including Katy Perry, Coldplay, Justin Bieber, Pharrell Williams, Miley Cyrus, Take That, Usher, Little Mix and One Direction’s Niall Horan.
Last night, Robbie Williams and the Black Eyed Peas were announced as also booked for the concert.
Proceeds from the Sunday’s concert will go to a fund set up to help the victims’ families.
Performances at the 50,000 capacity stadium will kick off at 7.15pm and will be streamed online and broadcast by the BBC.
Tickets went on sale Thursday, selling out within six minutes, with website Ticketmaster reporting “incredible” demand.
Organisers have announced that anyone present at last month’s deadly concert will be able to attend the tribute concert for free.
With reporting from AFP and Cormac Fitzgerald
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Can I have my money back now
It’s like’…..burning your furniture – to keep warm!
Why are PwC saying this instead of IBRC and NAMA?
As property prices start to rise nama , ibrc start to dump property
Can someone explain why?
Dumping loans philip, not property. They’re Dumping the loans as they’re non-performing and want to get them off the balance sheet.
If they had the patience, they’d put arrangements in place to allow the properties to return to positive equity and then seek a sale, this recouping more of the tax payers money.
Unfortunately, they’ll sell the loans for a discount and allow the new purchasers to do this and net a tidy profit.
The article outlines that IBRC (IBROKE would probably be a better name) will offload € 15 billion in loans.
Yet the linked article tells us that IBROKE have already offloaded 90% of its loanbook, € 19.8 billion out of € 21.7 billion leaving just € 1.9 billion on hand.
This can only mean, if the previous article is correct, that it is NAMA that is offloading the majority of the loans.
Why the subterfuge?
Why make people think that this is some kind of joint enterprise when it is NAMA that is leading the charge?
Have the shiny suit brigade from the canal something to hide?
Given their obsession with secrecy it would not surprise me if they have, perhaps selling the loans to some preferred customer with an inside track at a serious discount.
The way things go it will all be wrapped up before we know anything, plus ça change.
Who in their right mind would buy this junk?
It might only be worth 30% of face value but if you buy it for 20% it’s a good deal. For the buyer anyway.
@ Irish Revolution
The Banks?
Hedge funds bought it. They will now sell off all the ghost estates etc at a lower price so people that have houses for sale at the min will eventually have to sell for half or take them off the market.
Fab house here in drogheda asking price €325. Hilarious. You could now nearly get a house for that on raglan road or ailsbury road!! So that house is realistically worth less than €150 really.
People and notions ha
What about Bank of Scotland selling on my mortgage & others in their Irish portfolio to a company called Tanager Ltd.
I’m in a tizzy all day because I don’t know what it means for us.
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