Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Thursday 25 May 2017

1. Manchester attack: Two more arrested in city

Manchester police arrested two more men this morning in connection with Monday's attack at Manchester Arena, while a controlled explosion was carried out overnight as police hunt a terror network they believed helped bomber Salman Abedi. Seventeen of the 22 victims have now been named, with the latest to be identified being Eilidh MacLeod, 14, from the Scottish island of Barra.

Manchester Arena attack: Salman Abedi 'assembled deadly bomb alone'

2. Manchester attack: May to discuss leaks with Trump

Prime Minister Theresa May was due to discuss the US leaks about the Manchester attack with Donald Trump today at an informal Nato summit in Brussels today. Confidential intelligence about the investigation, including forensic photographs taken at the scene of the blast, has appeared in the US press. Trump said the leaks were "deeply troubling".

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Manchester attack: UK stops sharing information with US

3. Majority of Britons believe minorities threaten culture

More than half of Britons believe the presence of ethnic minorities threatens UK culture, a survey suggests. The Aurora Humanitarian Index 2017 also found a quarter of people think immigrants take jobs away from Britons and a third believe they take more from society than they contribute.

4. Donald Trump meets Nato leaders

Donald Trump has met with EU leaders, including new French president Emmanuel Macron, at a Nato summit in Brussels. He said terrorism must be "stopped in its tracks" but also told Nato members they owed "massive amounts of money" to the organisation. He also warned of the risks posed by uncontrolled immigration and the threat posed by Russia.

5. Manchester United win Europa League

Manchester United won the Europa League last night, beating Ajax 2-0 in Stockholm. Midfielder Paul Pogba, who scored the first of the goals, said: "We played for the people who died [in the Manchester terror attack]." Manager Jose Mourinho joined his team to pose with a banner saying: "Manchester - A city united" in tribute to those killed.

Man Utd dedicate Europa League win to terror victims

6. Cost of Tory free breakfast plan 'could treble'

Academics say that the cost of the Tory manifesto pledge to give every primary school child in England a free breakfast could be more than treble the £60m they have set aside for it. The plan also includes scrapping free lunches at infant schools in England, which the government says would provide a £650m saving nationally.

7. Unseen Sylvia Plath poems discovered at university

Two previously unknown poems by US poet Sylvia Plath have been discovered in an archive at the Lilly Library at Indiana University. The poems survive only as impressions in a sheet of carbon paper and had to be carefully deciphered from photographs. Academics think they are probably early works.

8. UK growth rate revised downwards

The UK economy grew by just 0.2 per cent in the first quarter of the year says the Office for National Statistics. The figure has been revised down from 0.3 per cent, which was predicted at the end of April. It is the lowest quarterly growth figure since the first quarter of 2016. The impact of the Brexit vote is believed to be responsible. Annual growth has also been revised down to two per cent from 2.1 per cent.

Services sector to see 'steady but sluggish' growth

9. Rihanna and Lupita Nyong'o tweet to become a film

Singer Rihanna and actor Lupita Nyong'o have teamed up to make a film inspired by a joke on Twitter about the two of them. A picture posted to the site showed the two women on the front row of a fashion show, together with the caption that they "looked like they're in a heist movie". Netflix won the rights to produce the film.

10. Briefing: What is Operation Temperer?

When Theresa May raised the risk of a terror attack in the UK from "severe" to "critical", she set in motion the deployment of armed forces in a response known in Whitehall as Operation Temperer.

Introduced in 2015, Operation Temperer is a government security measure that allows up to 5,000 armed soldiers to be deployed on the streets to assist police in protecting against a terror attack.

The plan, which the Daily Telegraph says had been kept secret until it was accidentally leaked to a newspaper, means soldiers will take on the role of guarding sensitive locations, including railway stations, sports stadiums, entertainment venues and national landmarks. This will free up police resources, enabling armed police officers to watch other key sites.

Manchester attack: What is Operation Temperer?