(BBC) More than 1,000 staff in Manchester have taken counter-terrorism training ahead of new legislation to tighten venue security after the Arena bomb.
The Action Counters Terrorism (ACT) course aims to equip staff to identify, mitigate and respond to terror attacks.
It was designed to support the Protect Duty rules, dubbed Martyn’s Law, after Martyn Hett, one of 22 victims of the Manchester blast in 2017.
His mum Figen Murray, a counter-terror campaigner, backs the “vital” course.
Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a homemade bomb on 22 May 2017.
