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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 ...
Fireworks were let off and a police van was damaged as far-right and anti-racist demonstrators clashed in Plymouth amid a wave of mob violence sweeping the UK.. The protesters clashed as campaign ...
On 12 August, the UK government announced that despite a de-escalation in the riots over the weekend, government officials remained on "high alert". [ 226 ] 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.
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 ...
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.
Multiple copycat protests also sprung up around the UK, many by veterans, to stop the vandalism of war memorials. [citation needed] A statue of the 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston was toppled and defaced in Bristol. One protester placed his knee on the statue's neck, recalling Floyd's murder by asphyxiation by a white policeman.
The last time Britain faced social unrest on this scale was in 2011, when a fatal police shooting of a Black British man in north London led to protests that turned into days of riots in the capital.