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Riots have spread across England and Northern Ireland in recent days following the killings of three young girls in Southport on 29 July.. Authorities are working to curb the serious civil ...
Riots have erupted at anti-immigration protests in towns and cities across Britain in the last week, with attacks by far-right groups on hotels housing asylum seekers and on mosques. On July 29 ...
The justice minister told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “We will make sure that anyone who is given a custodial sentence as a result of the riots and disorder, there will be a prison place ...
On 12 August, the UK government announced that despite a de-escalation in the riots over the weekend, government officials remained on "high alert". [ 233 ] On 19 August, the UK government activated Operation Early Dawn , its measures to ease prison overcrowding, as more people were given custodial sentences over their roles in the riots.
UK police prepared for planned far-right protests and other demonstrations this weekend, after two nights of unrest in several English towns and cities following a mass stabbing that killed three ...
On 18 July 2024, a riot took place in the Harehills area of Leeds, Yorkshire, England. The incident was triggered by a dispute over four children of a Romani family being taken into care by social services and police. [1] The situation escalated as residents, angry and filming the police, gathered, forcing the police to retreat.
A heavy security presence, rapid arrests and displays of unity by people across Britain prevented a repeat of widespread rioting involving racist attacks targeting Muslims and migrants, officials ...
2010: Policing of the student protests included the controversial technique of kettling. At the Whitehall march on 24 November mounted police's use of horses for crowd control was described by others present as a "charge". [3] [4] A journalist at the Parliament Square protest on 9 December characterised the police tactics as "very heavy-handed ...