Arndale bombing: 25 years on, Manchester still waits for answers

It was the biggest bomb ever exploded in peacetime England: so vast that no building within half a mile is thought to have been left undamaged.

Twenty-five years ago on Tuesday, the IRA detonated a device that would rip a gaping hole in Manchester city centre. So massive was the 3,300lb monster – planted in a truck outside the Arndale shopping centre – that the blast could be heard 15 miles away.