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Shocking four nights of rioting and looting across England
LONDON - Between August 6 to 10, several London boroughs and districts of cities and towns across England suffered widespread rioting, looting and arson.
Following a peaceful march on August 6 in relation to the police response to the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan by Metropolitan Police Service firearms officers two days earlier, a riot began in Tottenham, North London.
In the following days, rioting spread to several London boroughs and districts and eventually to some other areas of England, with the most severe disturbances outside London occurring in Bristol and cities in the Mdlands and North West of England.
The riots were characterised by rampant looting and arson attacks of unprecedented levels.
As a result, British Prime Minister David Cameron returned early from his holiday in Italy and other government and opposition leaders also ended their holidays to attend to the matter.
All police leave was cancelled and parliament was recalled on August 11 to debate the situation.
As of August 15, about 3,100 people had been arrested, of whom more than 1,000 had been charged.
Arrests, charges and court proceedings continue, with courts working extended hours. There were atotal 3,443 crimes across London linked to the disorder. About a fifth were youths, aged 10 to 17, and91 percent were male.
Five people died and at least 16 others were injured as a direct result of related violent acts.
An estimated £200 million worth of property damage was incurred, and
BRITISH Home Secretary Theresa May said the Home Office is discussing how to give UK police forces the tools they need to tackle future disturbances.
local economic activity was significantly compromised.
Police action was blamed for the initial riot, and the subsequent police reaction was criticised as being neither appropriate nor sufficiently effective.
The riots have generated significant ongoing debate among political, social and academic figures about the causes and context in which they happened.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said, "We are doing everything necessary to ensure those who turned on their own communities face justice quickly.
"Everyone involved with the courts and prison service has put in a huge effort to make that possible and that work will continue."
The arrest tally was announced as Home Secretary Theresa May met police and executives from social media networks to see how they could help prevent them being used for criminal behaviour.
It is widely believed that social networks such as BlackBerry Messenger, Facebook and Twitter were used extensively by rioters to organize but the government did not seek any additional powers to close them down, said the Home Office.
Tom Jenkins, chief executive of the European Tour Operators Association, said while images of riots looked bad, the disturbances would have little long-term impact on Britain's resilient tourism industry.
"My members move tens of thousands of visitors in London every day and I haven't had any reports of anyone being caught up in it," he said.
"We've had major terrorist bombings, we've had sustained IRA campaign, we've had riots before.
"London is one of the most vibrant and safest places a tourist could go to. And that remains the case."
UK Recovery slows down in second quarter
LONDON - The UK's economic recovery slowed in the second quarter after official figures estimating GDP growth of 0.2 percent were unrevised.
The downturn, which followed the biggest fall in activity for manufacturing and other production industries in two years, was down on the 0.5 percent increase in the previous quarter, said the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
This was its biggest fall since the first quarter of2009 and was caused as food and transport equipment production was lower than previously expected.
There had also been the biggest falls in mining and quarrying output since 2006, while electricity, gas and water supply also fell, partly as a result of the hot weather in April.
The powerhouse services sector saw growth of 0.5 percent, which was unchanged from the previous estimate, despite figures showing that transport, storage and communications grew less than previously thought, driven by a slowdown in the telecommunications industry.
However, this was offset by a greater than previously thought rise in hotels and restaurants and business services and finance. Separate figures showed that the services sector grew by 1.6 percent in June.
Nick Clegg backs bid to reveal Hillsborough disaster documents
LONDON - Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is backing the campaign to get all documents, relating to the 1989 disaster at Sheffield's Hillsborough stadium, published.
Since Clegg heads the Cabinet Office, which was opposing publication, his intervention suggests that the government has accepted the inevitable.
Although more than 22 years have passed since 96 Liverpool fans were killed in the crush, the issue is still a potent one.
Nearly 130,000 people have signed an e-petition on the Downing Street website demanding that all relevant documents be made public.
Twitter messages from Liverpool manager, Kenny Dalglish, and Newcastle United player, Joey Barton, provided support.
When the Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, ruled that the
MEMORIAL to the victims of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.
papers should be published, the Cabinet Office appealed, on the grounds that it was for the Hillsborough Independent Panel set up last year to decide how much of the 45,000 boxes of material should be public.
Last month the government confirmed that the issue has been passed to the Commons Backbench Business committee with a view to having a debate on it.
Man charged over Clegg attack
GLASGOW - A man is due in court after Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was splattered with blue paint at a meeting with grassroots members of his party.
The 22-year-old was arrested and questioned by police following the attack on Clegg in Glasgow on the night of August 25.
The Liberal Democrat leader was splashed with blue paint, along with the leader of the Scottish party, Willie Rennie. Clegg later made light of the incident, saying it was "no big deal."