内容摘要："It was just horrendous, just really, really shocking. It's been upsetting - I've been speaking to the neighbours, who've had their windows smashed, their car windows smashed.

"It was just horrendous, just really, really shocking. It's been upsetting - I've been speaking to the neighbours, who've had their windows smashed, their car windows smashed.

She said: "It's true what they say about the Southport community: a very close knit community, a very family-orientated area."Stuff like this just doesn't happen here."

Sir Keir Starmer returned to Southport on Friday, visiting the town for the second time this week.The Prime Minister met people in the community along with metro mayor Steve Rotheram, Merseyside Chief Constable Serena Kennedy and representatives from the police, faith groups, health services and the education and voluntary sectors, the Liverpool Echo reported.He also paid a visit to Alder Hey hospital - where the injured children have been cared for - and thanked staff for their efforts.

Elsie's headteacher Jennifer Sephton, from Farnborough Road Infant School, described her as "such a caring and charismatic young lady who loved to please".In a tribute, she said Elsie had been a "loving and bright member of our wonderful community" since she was "first brought here on her father’s shoulders".

The school was "heartbroken and devastated" by her death, she added.

"We will miss you dearly Elsie. You were one of a kind," she added."Our children were deprived of everything. They didn't have their childhood."

It is remarkable that these feelings were being shared so freely in a country where opposition was not tolerated; the secret police, known as the Mukhabarat, seemed to be everywhere and spying on everyone, and critics were disappeared or sent to jail, where they were tortured and killed.Across Aleppo, the new authorities installed billboards with the image of chains around two wrists saying, "Freeing detainees is a debt upon our necks".

"We're happy, but there's still fear," Samar said. "Why are we still afraid? Why isn't our happiness full? It's because of the fear they [the regime] planted inside us".Her brother, Ahmed, agreed. "You could be sent to jail for saying simple things. I'm happy, but I'm still concerned. But we'll never live under repression again".