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Wednesday, 10 August 2011

UK riots: Trouble erupts in English cities

Police try to manage masked youths in Manchester
Sporadic violence has broken out in several cities around England, although London remained largely quiet with a heavy police presence on the streets.


With 16,000 police officers deployed in London, the streets remained calm after three previous nights of rioting.

But there was unrest in Manchester, Salford, Liverpool, Wolverhampton, Nottingham, Leicester and Birmingham with shops being looted and set alight.

The PM is recalling Parliament over Monday night's "sickening scenes".

Forty seven people have been arrested so far over trouble in Manchester and Salford where crowds of youths have set fire to buildings and cars while 87 have been arrested over disorder which has broken out across the West Midlands.

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