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| Tickets for a concert headlined by Ariana Grande to raise money for the victims of last week’s suicide bombing in Manchester go on sale on Thursday morning. | Tickets for a concert headlined by Ariana Grande to raise money for the victims of last week’s suicide bombing in Manchester go on sale on Thursday morning. |
| The One Love Manchester concert, to be held on Sunday evening at the Old Trafford cricket ground, will feature performances by Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Pharrell Williams, Usher, Take That and One Direction’s Niall Horan. | The One Love Manchester concert, to be held on Sunday evening at the Old Trafford cricket ground, will feature performances by Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Pharrell Williams, Usher, Take That and One Direction’s Niall Horan. |
| The £40 tickets go on sale at 10am on the Ticketmaster and LiveNation websites, and buyers will be given the added option of donating more money to the We Love Manchester emergency fund. | |
| The performers have all waived their fees and organisers hope the show will raise at least £2m for the fund, which was set up by Manchester city council and the British Red Cross after the attack on 22 May. The attack killed 22 people and injured 116. | |
| People who attended Grande’s original concert were asked to register by 10pm on Wednesday night if they wanted free tickets for Sunday’s performance. But some have complained that they are not eligible because they bought their tickets for Grande’s arena concert on resale websites. | |
| Laura Smith, from Hull, told the Mirror she had not been able to register for free tickets because she bought tickets to the Grande concert for her daughters and partner on the resale site GetMeIn, paying almost £500 for them, nearly twice the face value. | |
| “I’ve been trying to find the original purchaser on Facebook, but I’ve had messages from other people who were there last Monday who don’t want to go to the benefit concert,” she said. | “I’ve been trying to find the original purchaser on Facebook, but I’ve had messages from other people who were there last Monday who don’t want to go to the benefit concert,” she said. |
| “They’ve said they’re going to claim for the free tickets anyway then I can buy them off them – I thought that’s unfair, people are going to be making a hell of a lot of money out of this, when that’s not what it was about. The poor children who have had to witness it all – it’s just such a shame.” | “They’ve said they’re going to claim for the free tickets anyway then I can buy them off them – I thought that’s unfair, people are going to be making a hell of a lot of money out of this, when that’s not what it was about. The poor children who have had to witness it all – it’s just such a shame.” |
| Tickets for the show will not be available on most major ticket resale websites, in an attempt to stop touts profiting from the event. Ticketmaster said the tickets would be banned from both of its resale platforms, GetMeIn and Seatwave. Stubhub and Viagogo also announced they would not be accepting them. | Tickets for the show will not be available on most major ticket resale websites, in an attempt to stop touts profiting from the event. Ticketmaster said the tickets would be banned from both of its resale platforms, GetMeIn and Seatwave. Stubhub and Viagogo also announced they would not be accepting them. |
| About 50,000 people are expected to attend the event, which will be broadcast on BBC television. ITV has rescheduled the final of Britain’s Got Talent, moving it from Sunday to Saturday night, so as not to “distract from an important cause”, a spokesperson said. The British Soap Awards, which were initially scheduled for Saturday evening on ITV, will instead be broadcast on Tuesday night. | |
| Greater Manchester’s chief constable, Ian Hopkins, said police had consulted the families of the victims about Grande returning to Manchester, and that while the majority were in favour, some “clearly aren’t”. “That is absolutely understandable,” he said. | Greater Manchester’s chief constable, Ian Hopkins, said police had consulted the families of the victims about Grande returning to Manchester, and that while the majority were in favour, some “clearly aren’t”. “That is absolutely understandable,” he said. |
| Pupils at Parrs Wood high school, who last week recorded a charity cover of Ariana Grande’s song My Everything, will perform the song with the singer. Some members of the choir were at Grande’s concert on 22 May. | Pupils at Parrs Wood high school, who last week recorded a charity cover of Ariana Grande’s song My Everything, will perform the song with the singer. Some members of the choir were at Grande’s concert on 22 May. |