Ariana Grande to return to Manchester to play a benefit concert for victims of bombing

US pop star Ariana Grande, has said she will return to the city for a benefit concert after her show on Monday was bombed. 

She said her "heart, prayers and deepest condolences" are with the 22 victims of the bombing.

She said: "There is nothing I or anyone can do to take away the pain you are feeling or to make this better.

"However I extend my hand and heart and everything I possibly can give to you and yours, should you want or need my help in any way."

Grande calls for people to come "closer together, to help each other, to love more, to sing louder and to live more kindly and generously than we did before.

"We will not quit or operate in fear. We won't let this divide us. We won't let hate win."

Grande, 23, had just finished her concert at the Manchester Arena on Monday night when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb that killed 22 people and injured more than 50 others.

Grande is said to have returned home to Florida on Tuesday, and her scheduled concerts in London on Thursday and Friday were cancelled.

It comes after fellow singer Miley Cyrus said she "can't wait" to hug her friend Ariana Grande, whose concert was the target of the Manchester bombing.

Cyrus also said the terror attack has been an "eye opener" to her in terms of her own life and that of the people around her.

She said, during an appearance on The Today Show in New York: "Just to know someone that goes through that ... also it makes my life seem more real.

"I don't like a lot of people around me, I don't really have the team and crew around me, I like to lie really low.

"Now I realise, I think that I need to know I'm around a lot of people and to protect myself and everyone that's here.

"I take that more seriously, I'll be more cautious ... It's really been an eye opener."

She added: "And for my friend Ariana, it's beyond me. I can't wait until I get a second to give her a hug."