Manchester Arena inquiry LIVE updates: Families make final submissions on MI5 'failures'

The Manchester Arena Inquiry has resumed for two days of final submissions.

Today QCs representing the bereaved families were making final statements to the chairman, Sir John Saunders, on the planning and preparation of the May 2017 attack as well as the radicalisation of suicide bomber Salman Abedi and whether the attack could have been prevented.

MI5 has previously admitted Abedi had come across its radar 18 times since 2010.

The Libyan-heritage Fallowfield-raised Salford University student was made a 'subject of interest' in 2014 - but the file was dropped four months later.

The security services also uncovered links to six other people of interest to them and, even a few months before the Arena atrocity, more information came to light which had flagged him up for potential further investigation, although the meeting to discuss his case was scheduled to take place nine days after the bombing.

MI5 has also admitted a 'missed opportunity' to stop Abedi when he landed at Manchester Airport just a few days before he launched his attack

Following two weeks of evidence in November held in secret to protect national security, last month the chairman of the inquiry Sir John Saunders published a 15-page 'gist' of the secret session he considered safe to be released to the public.

The document revealed more of the information counter terror police and MI5 had on Abedi, and the pressure that the security services were under, prior to the devastating May 2017 attack, which claimed 22 lives and left a thousand others injured.

But it did not expand on two key pieces of intelligence on Abedi MI5 had received prior to the attack, 'the significance of which was not fully appreciated at the time'.

And two MI5 witnesses have also