Our warrior mum.. you taught us everything

Three daughters on rock they lost to Arena bomb

Jane Tweddle’s three girls, Isabelle, Harriet and Lily said in a heartfelt statement to the inquiry: “You always knew how to brighten someone’s day and make them feel loved.

“You treated everyone with kindness, decency, and respect. You rarely got mad and when you did, you probably had a damn good reason, especially having to deal with three teenage girls.”

They said she was their “warrior mum” who taught them to stick together.

And the sisters said Jane, 51, who lived in Blackpool but was originally from Hartlepool, was “a true friend”. They added that she was “cherished and trusted” by pupils at the school where she was a receptionist.

They said: “There is nothing we would not give to hear your voice, see your smile or hold your hand for one more minute.

“When we would ask what time it was you would reply ‘it is the time of your life, never forget it’. We will hold on to that for ever.”

The husband of nurse Alison Howe, 44, from Royton, Oldham, told how his family

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had been “destroyed” by her death. Stephen Howe revealed he had asked her to marry him when she cared for him after

ADORED Jane Tweddle, third from left, with Lily, Harriet and Isabelle. Inset, Alison Howe

an accident: “Alison took me to hospital and when I regained consciousness I think I told her I loved her and one day we would be married.”

She was mum to their two daughters Sasha and Darcey and his four sons. Stephen said: “Every decision we make, we

always ask ‘ what would Mum have said?’” Alison’s mother Sue added: “We don’t live any more, we just exist.”

The father of Olivia Campbell-Hardy, 15, from Bury, also told of his loss. Andrew Hardy said Olivia had gone to the Ariana Grande concert with a friend and never returned: “Olivia was a daddy’s girl. Her death devastated us.” Sir John Saunders, chairing the inquiry into the 2017 bombing by

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Ab e d i , said hearing the “pen-portraits” of the 22 who died had been “deeply affecting.” The inquiry con - tinues on Monday.