Explosions reported in Manchester?

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Something on the Daily Fail, any news elsewhere?

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Two explosions being reported on sky news ticker now.

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Police saying a serious incident now, according to Sky.

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A number of fatalities according to GMP.

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Halmyre said:

I think modern fertilisers have an inhibitor added to the formula, although I might be thinking of something else.

Only in NI, it prevented PIRA making ANFO, but had the impact of them figuring out how to make ANS, which is worse.

The Nitrogen content in mainland U.K. was left unchanged as l recall.

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Rogue86 said:

This, kind of. IS use many of the same recruiting techniques our own Armed Forces do, although I know many people will be uncomfortable with that comparison. It appeals to the "right" kind of person, whatever your interpretations of that may form. They don't necessarily have to be unhinged psychopaths - it's almost unfathomable what a person can be manipulated to do if they think they're doing it for the right reasons.

I don't have any real answers for this, it feels like it's on my doorstep and I know many people who have been directly and indirectly affected by it. Seeing the footage of confused and anguished parents on the news this morning trying to identify their own kids in the hundreds running past them definitely hit me harder than I thought it would. As ever, good to see the community pulling together.

What they open shops on the high street? Advertise TV and the press that you can have a career, make friends for life and travel the world? You'd think the funnies would have stopped that fairly easily.

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BBC on twitter saying the Police et al think they know who the perpetrator is.