The daughters of Jane Tweddle, who was killed in the Manchester Arena bombing, have paid tribute to their “warrior mum” at the public inquiry into the atrocity.

Jane, 51, worked as a school receptionist and was living in Blackpool at the time of the attack.

She had travelled to Manchester with one of her friends, Joanne Aaron, to drop Joanne’s daughter and a friend off at the venue for the Ariana Grande concert.

They were waiting to pick the girls up when the explosion happened at 10.31pm on 22 May 2017.

Jane’s pen portrait tribute – prepared by her daughters Harriet, Lily and Isabelle – was read out on their behalf at the inquiry.

“You always knew how to brighten someone’s day and make them feel loved,” they said.

“You treated everyone with kindness, decency and respect.

“Our warrior mum, teaching us to be kind and to always stick together. Our house was always full of love and laughter.

“You’d pull the oldest tricks in the book to get us laughing.”

Ms Tweddle, one of 23 people killed in the bombing, was also remembered by her daughters as being “cherished and trusted by the young lives you touched” at the school she worked at.

“Children from all backgrounds would open up to you about their home lives and personal struggles – the perfect listener,” they added.

“You were a shoulder to cry on and a source of support for so many.”

The daughters also remembered that whenever they used to ask their mum for the time, she would reply: “It’s the time of your life, never forget it.”

“We’ll hold onto that forever,” they said.

Her friends remembered her as “our Curly Sue, our fun-loving girl from Hartlepool, a natural beauty with a golden heart.”

Margarette Tweddle, Jane’s mother, added: “Not a day that goes by that I don’t miss her smile, laughter and her love of life.

“All the good times we had and thought we would have many more.

“What happened in Manchester that night was evil and we won’t let evil win – Jane would not want that.”

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