THE brother of a teenager killed in the Manchester Arena attack has spoken of her family’s ‘defiance’ as tomorrow’s first anniversary of the tragedy approaches.

Nell Jones, 14, from Goostrey, was among the 22 people killed in the bomb explosion after an Ariana Grande concert on May 22 last year.

In the 12 months which followed the attack Nell’s family set up a foundation in her name with the aim of spreading love rather than hate.

Nell’s brother Sam said the decision to set up the Remembering Nell Foundation, which will support children’s charities in the north west, was made by the family before Christmas.

He said: “It just seemed we needed to do something for Nell, we couldn’t just let her pass into memory.”

This year the charity is supporting the Wingate Centre, for disabled children, Cheshire Autism and the Wood Street Mission, a Manchester-based children’s charity.

“We can’t change what happened and there is evil in the world, there is no doubt in that, but there is also great love in the world and great people,” he said.

“There are more good people in this world than there are bad people and we can’t let the people who want to destroy our way of life destroy it.

“Defiance is quite a strong word, but that is a definite element. We want to spread love around the world.”

Sam said the work of the foundation would be a fitting tribute to his sister.

He said: “Nell and love go hand in hand. She was such a caring person, she wouldn’t want anybody to be picked on or be unkind, so we want to try and spread her beautiful message to everyone.”

Each year the foundation will support different charities, chosen to reflect causes Nell would have cared about.

Sam said: “It will be a real range of things. Anything Nell would have appreciated.

“There are all sorts of different people in the world and all sorts of different problems.”

As well as the foundation, a Garden of Memories for Nell has been built at her school in Holmes Chapel.