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Countries issue safety warnings over travel to UK amid riots 378 arrested with more expected to come ‘Standing army’ of specialist police offices to be set up
One channel on the Russian-owned platform – named ‘Southport Rise Up’ – had over 13,000 members at one point, as it continued to post locations for rioters to target even over the weekend.
While the center-left Labour P arty recently won a landslide victory in the U.K.’s July elections, that leftward shift was paired with rising support for the far-right Reform U.K. party, which ...
A video circulated online of a mob of rioters surrounding and attacking an Asian man in his car saying the word "kill" while shouting racial slurs. [109] [34] A hotel housing asylum seekers was also attacked, with rioters throwing bricks and smashing windows. [110] Outside England, there were also protests and violence in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The claims were propagated by Channel3Now, a news aggregation website with a past history of spreading misinformation. [134] [135] On the evening of 30 July, the same evening as a vigil was held for the victims, hundreds of protesters gathered outside Southport Mosque on St Luke's Road, less than 400 metres (0.25 mi) from the scene of the attack.
[14] [15] Videos posted on social media from the riot show people speaking Romanian while overturning a police car. [17] [18] iNews reported that police were 'outnumbered' and 'ran away' from the riot and disorder. A number of locals perceived a lack of emergency personnel at the scene for most of the night.
It was the scene of a five-day riot in 1991; community regeneration projects commenced in the aftermath of those events. [2] The 1991 riots compounded the area's poor reputation for crime and youth delinquency, but community initiatives have sought to address these issues and many locals feel that Ely has been unfairly stigmatised.
To quell the disorder, Starmer has said rioters will face the full force of the law. Nearly 600 additional prison places are being made available and specialist officers are being drafted in.