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  IMAGE  Image caption, Nell Jones, 14, was one of 22 people killed in the Manchester Arena bomb on 22 May 2017 The mother of a 14-year-old girl who died in the Manchester Arena bomb said she still feels "trapped in a bubble" as the fifth anniversary approaches. Nell Jones, of Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, was one of 22 people killed at the end of Ariana Grande's gig on 22 May 2017. Her mother Jayne Jones said "real life is running alongside" her own grief. "Outside that bubble, life is carrying on," she told BBC North West Tonight, adding: "Suddenly you think it's five years. Nell's never out of my mind." Mrs Jones, 60, described how her grief has evolved. "It's like my body won't - and my brain won't allow me to - go too deep," she said. "If I went too deep it's a long time crawling back out of it again. "You do deal with it, you cope with it, but it still doesn't seem real that she's not there...

  IMAGE SOUR The 12 detectives at the heart of the Metropolitan Police's investigation into Downing Street and Cabinet Office parties have had to wade through an ever-shifting morass of rules. It's led to some people getting no Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs), while at least one person got five. A total of 83 people have been given 126 fines between them, for events on  eight different dates. Prime Minister Boris Johnson got fined for eating birthday cake but was not fined for other parties he went to. So how did the detectives working on the investigation the Met named  Operation Hillman  decide who to fine and when? Scotland Yard does not want to discuss the details of individual cases but it is possible to read between the lines, a bit. PM will not face a further Partygate fine A timeline of the lockdown parties The Covid rules when Downing Street parties were held Let's take the  birthday cake gathering on 19 June 2020. This was not people eating cake during th...