PRESS ASSOCIATION -- A man who spent nine days in custody charged with setting fire to a clothes store during rioting has been cleared of any wrongdoi...
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Lawyers have predicted "many other successful appeals" after a woman jailed for her role in last week's riots had her sentence re...
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has denied rumours of a rift between the Government and police over handling of the riots in Eng...
How much blame social networks should take for last week's rioting is a question that has been debated across the media, including on The Huffington P...
Thanks to the lovely and funny people at Photoshop Looter we can bring you a lighter side to the recent riots in London and other cities around the UK...
Politicians are happy to mouth platitudes about respect now but were keen enough, just a month or so ago, to close down the youth clubs and other services that gave these kids some boundaries and some sense of respect at least.
Which author would be best placed to respond to this week's riots? My money would be on perhaps the greatest British post-war novelist of them all, an...
I was 17 when the riots that swept Britain in 1981 broke out. Fast forward 30 years and we're dealing with a different beast in my view, the atmosphere's different, Rioters 2.0 don't seem politically motivated.
I am someone who argues repeatedly that real change, historically, only ever comes about from ordinary people taking to the streets and demanding it. The riots we're seeing, however, are a million miles from anything like that.
Watching video feeds of the riots, I see places I know, shops I've been in, streets I've walked down... and I see gangs of youths with bandanas, baseball caps and hoods tied tight around their heads to obscure as much of their face as possible.
Hundreds of people have rioted and looted shops in Manchester city centre as towns across the UK suffer a fourth day of violence by gangs of violent y...