Belfast riots: retrospective policing
Police in Belfast were at full-stretch recently as rioting broke out on the streets. Now they are intending to catch-up with the perpetrators after the event.
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A 43 year old man has been charged with the murder of PC Keith Blakelock at the height of rioting on the north London estate of Broadwater Farm in 1985.
Runners at the London Marathon are expected to raise £70,000 for Boston bombing victims and their families at a “defiant” 2013 race.
Police in Belfast were at full-stretch recently as rioting broke out on the streets. Now they are intending to catch-up with the perpetrators after the event.
A conman who posed as a Metropolitan police inspector during last year’s Tottenham riots is jailed for five years.
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Tottenham MP David Lammy says restrictions on parents smacking their children were partly responsible for last summer’s riots. MP Harriett Baldwin and columnist Laurie Penny debate the issue.
Channel 4 News has announced that BBC London’s Investigations Reporter Paraic O’Brien is set to join the 7pm programme as a reporter.
A new exhibition commemorating the 200th anniversary of Dickens’ birth suggests comparisons between poverty in mid-19th century London and modern-day divisions between rich and poor.
The Metropolitan Police has confirmed that 3,003 people have been arrested and 1,931 charges or cautions made for crimes connected with August’s rioting in London.
Riots which swept across England in August were the result of a “broken penal system” which failed to stop a “feral underclass” from reoffending, says Justice Secretary Ken Clarke.
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