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Amid the sorrow and despair, there was joy - 'Jewish joy', as one community leader called it. In a portacabin a stone’s throw away from the scene of the Manchester synagogue attack, survivors came together to do what they do every Saturday morning.

Tears were shed as they mourned their friends killed by a terrorist just 48 hours earlier on their holiest day. But there was also prayer, dancing and singing in defiance of the attempt to break their spirit.

Politics reporter Joseph Timan was given special permission to attend the remarkable, makeshift service of the Heaton Park synagogue congregation. And his piece is a powerful snapshot of a community attempting to process an unimaginable grief. View 5 Images

He writes: “It was a makeshift service in more ways

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