An Open Letter Has Been Released Urging The Public To Fight Terrorism

A group of terror attack survivors and relatives has urged the public to do more to tackle terrorism by standing up to hate. 

Ahead of the anniversary of the Manchester bombings on Tuesday, an open letter has been released setting out a five-point plan to help stop future plots.

Among the 41 signatories is the widow of murdered Fusilier Lee Rigby.

Others are survivors and relatives of those killed in attacks in London, Manchester, Paris, Tunisia and Bali.

These are the points that the Survivors Against Terror's plan list:

• Please keep your focus on honouring the memory of those who have been killed. Terrorists often attack partly to gain notoriety. We should deny them it; their names don't deserve to be remembered.

• Give to appeals to help the victims of attacks and demand government provide the high-quality services that survivors need.

• Ask media and social media organisations to do far more to take on and shut down those driving hate.

• Support our emergency and security services to do their job. If you know something or suspect something, tell them.

• Take on hatred wherever you find it. Very few of us will ever meet a terrorist, but lots of us will experience those driving hatred. Hatred is the sea that terrorists need to swim in, if we take on that hatred, we dry up that sea.

Dan Hett, whose brother Martyn was one of 22 victims to die in the Manchester Arena attack on 22 May last year, said terrorists hoped to "turn our communities against each other" by spreading fear.

"That's why we're asking people to join the fight against terror, by all playing our part,

"Most importantly we're asking people to take on the hatred that leads to terror, no matter where it comes from, or who it's directed towards."