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Wednesday, 10 August 2011

England riots

Key points

  • PM David Cameron says every action will be taken to restore order, with contingency plans for water cannon to be available at 24 hours' notice
  • Trouble in Greater Manchester and the West Midlands on Tuesday night, with scores arrested, but London is relatively calm
  • "We needed a fightback and a fightback is under way", the PM says
  • Three men died when they were hit by a car in Birmingham
  • MPs and peers recalled to Parliament for Thursday to debate riots
  • Courts in London stay open throughout the night to deal with the number of people charged 
  • Skip To Latest Live Text
  • 1451:
    The Association of Police Authorities is warning that funds held by its members could be "decimated" by claims made for damage caused by the riots.
  • 1444: Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond
    says 250 police officers have been dispatched from Scotland to the Midlands and the north of England to help combat rioting and disorder.
    But there will also be 17,000 officers on duty in Scotland tonight, in case violence breaks out.
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    1440: Crime intelligence analyst from London
    emails: I too would like to ask the prime minister and mayor of London who they think are directing the police by sifting through intelligence and identfying potential vulberable locations for disorder? It's not the front-line staff that they promise will not be cut but the backroom staff who they are offering no such promise about! Every intelligence researcher across London was offered voluntary redundancy in the last two months.
  • 1435:
    Courts in London have been running through the night, as they begin processing the first people accused of rioting. BBC News legal correspondent Clive Coleman reports from Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court.
  • 1432: Darrell James - former gang member from Hackney
    tells the BBC's Newshour that gangs are "out of control" and young people have been "ignored" for too long.
    "Apart from being gang-members, they're kids. We're adults, we're supposed to dictate to them, not them dictate to us."
  • 1432: Housing minister Grant Shapps
    tells BBC News that anyone found to be involved in the violent outbreaks across England, should be "very mindful" of participating in the unrest because it could affect their eligibility for public housing in the future.
  • 1428:
    In Peckham, south London, the boarded up window of a store hit by rioters has been turned into a makeshift peace wall.
    Man looks at notes of peace on boarded-up shop in Peckham
  • 1422: Sir Hugh Orde Chief Constable and President of Association of Chief Police Officers
    tells BBC News 16,000 police officers will be deployed to London again tonight.
    He says the nationwide situation is "serious but not critical", adding Chief Constable of West Midlands Police, Chris Sims, is arresting around one person a minute at the moment.
  • 1414: Hazel Blears, Labour MP for Salford and former Secretary of State for Communities
    has just returned from inspecting the damage in Salford after last night's trouble. Speaking to BBC 5 live she says: "Small businesses who employ local people are now going to have completely rebuild and that's what has made me so angry - these small minority of criminals, who are ruining it for good and decent people."
    When asked whether she would mind if water cannons were introduced into the city, she says: "As fas as I'm concerned the police should so what it takes."
  • 1409:
    In case you are wondering, this is a new live page on the England riots. A BBC record, the old page had been constantly updated for three days and users were reporting problems uploading it.
  • 1357: Gloucestershire Police
    say a 19-year-old man and a 16-year-old woman have been arrested over the disorder in Gloucester last night.
    Assistant Chief Constable Ivor Tywdell says officers are "working through a large amount of intelligence and information from the community". There are now a total of 12 people in police custody.
  • 1356:
    Read about the broom army resisting the riots after a twitter campaign.
  • 1350: BBC Monitoring
    Correspondent Dmitriy Melnikov on Russian state news channel Rossiya 24 suggested that British shopkeepers and insurance companies might not be the only ones to pay for the rioting. "For Prime Minister David Cameron, these pogroms have turned into the most serious test of his entire political career," Melnikov commented.
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    1349: Met Police Staff employee in London
    e-mails: I read with interest that the mayor of London is now advocating not cutting police officers. What I would like to mention is it is us police staff in boroughs that are keeping things operating and supporting officers whilst they are moved from their office duties onto the streets at present. Why not a case for us not being cut, especially us in an operational roll, or is it of course that we are just considered as "civvies" who do not count?
  • 1348: Home Secretary Theresa May
    tells BBC Radio 4's The World at One that she has ordered all police forces in England and Wales to mobilise special constables, cancel police leave and adopt the "tough, robust approach" seen in London last night.
  • 1348: The Police Federation
    says Home Secretary Theresa May has refused to meet its chairman Paul McKeever this week to discuss the policing of the riots. A statement is awated from the Home Office.
  • 1343: Ministry of Justice
    statement: "We have enough prison places for those that are sentenced to custody. There is substantial capacity in the prison system."
  • 1340: Greater Manchester Police
    release a first batch of 17 CCTV images of suspects wanted in connection with the rioting and looting last night in Manchester and Salford.
  • 1341: The Met Police
    release a second tranche of images of people they would like to speak to about the recent disorder affecting parts of London, as part of Operation Withern.
  • 1321:
    The BBC's Clive Coleman at Highbury Corner magistrates' court says many are being committed for sentencing at the crown court. The reason for this is the magistrates' bench feel the riot was such an aggravating feature to the burglary that the crown court ought to sentence because they have additional powers. The magistrates feel that they had insufficient powers to sentence for a single count of burglary. They could only sentence for six months whereas that could be up to 10 years at the crown court.
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