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Senior ambulance service commander accepts he 'provided no leadership' in first two hours of Arena bomb response

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A senior ambulance service commander on the night of the Manchester Arena bombing has accepted he 'provided no leadership' in the first two hours after the attack.

Neil Barnes was North West Ambulance Service's strategic - or gold - commander and said the response to the terror attack 'was being managed at a tactical level'.

The public inquiry into the May 22, 2017, atrocity heard he was first told of the attack in a phone call at home at 10.40pm, ten minutes after the explosion.

He didn't leave his home for around an hour - arriving at Greater Manchester Police headquarters at 12.30am to attend a Strategic Coordinating Group (SCG) meeting of emergency services commanders.

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