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Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight. I'm Ranvir Singh, in | :00:02. | :00:06. | |
Manchester city centre. "We know who you are and we are coming to | :00:06. | :00:11. | |
get you," - the police warning to vandals who trashed our cities. We | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
will be hearing from the people determined to get our cities back | :00:14. | :00:24. | |
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on their feet and bring the folks So how will they do that? I've been | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
finding out, and asking the police whether they were properly prepared | :00:29. | :00:37. | |
for last night's trouble here in And away from the burning cars and | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
smashed windows, I'm live in Liverpool One, where even here the | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
economic cost is being felt, as shops close early and stock is | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
cleared out as a precaution. And I direct appeal for calm from | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
I'm Gordon Burns. In the studio tonight, we'll be examining the | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
reasons for the disorder and asking how so many young people got | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
involved, and we'll be looking at the role social media is playing in | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
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helping to bring the violence to an There is only one story on North | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
West Tonight and that is the violence that spread across our | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
region last night. Ranvir, as you saw, is in the city centre of | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
It all seems to be running pretty normally now but last night battles | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
with the police, looting, mindless violence and hundreds of arrests | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
were the kind of scenes that shocked people across the North | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
West. Today police are saying a note to the criminals are and they | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
will be brought to justice. I chafe -- our chief reporter is on | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
Deansgate. There is an increased level of police, isn't there? | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
If you look around Deansgate tonight you can see there are more | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
police up and down the street. The area did experience its share of | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
problems last night. These are not just Greater Manchester Police | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
officers, they are from other forces, too. Greater Manchester | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
police officers sent some officers down to London to help last night | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
but they say that did not hamper their ability to deal with problems | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
here. The message today is it his business is normal. Tonight, though, | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
it has to be said that some people are not taking any chances. Some | :02:32. | :02:42. | |
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shopkeepers are boarding up their It was the night when the normal | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
rules of morality were put on hold in parts of Greater Manchester. | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
were outnumbered last night. It was hard to see criminals attacking | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
premises that we could just not get the numbers do in order to stop it | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
spreading. This was Salford, a city where, for a few terrifying hours, | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
anarchy swept the streets. There was honour even among thieves as | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
they tussled over their spoils. In Manchester, they helped themselves | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
to whatever they fancied from city centre stores, brazenly and | :03:13. | :03:23. | |
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apparently without any fear of the consequences. They were trying | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
shoes on on the steps in front of us to see if they had got the right | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
size. They were going into the back and taking bags and filling them up. | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
Aspects of life I never thought in my wildest dreams I would say. | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
today, the police promised there would be consequences for these | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
people. We have your image, we have your face, we have your acts of | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
wanton criminality on film. We are coming for you from today. No | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
matter how long it takes. We will arrest those people responsible. | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
The trouble escalated quickly into scenes which shocked even the most | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
seasoned of police officers. But were those officers properly | :04:05. | :04:14. | |
prepared? We knew there was a potential and lots of different | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
areas of Greater Manchester. What shocked and surprised us was the | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
level of violence, particularly in Salford, so that was a different | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
situation which we had to give priority to. On Merseyside, too, | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
they have been counting the cost of another night of senseless violence | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
that brought fear and destruction to the streets of Liverpool and | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
Birkenhead. Fire crews found themselves in the firing line. | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
fact that we or any other members of the emergency services come | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
under attack is appalling. I cannot understand the logic of the people | :04:44. | :04:53. | |
that would attack us, or indeed anyone, for that matter. The tender | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
years of some of those involved has been almost as shocking as the acts | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
they carried out. There were 15 people arrested last night, some of | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
them as young as 14 years old. That is something the parents can do | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
something about. A sense of outrage is shared by the majority of law- | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
abiding citizens in Greater Manchester and Merseyside. Their | :05:16. | :05:26. | |
main concern now, what can be done As we have already said, the police | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
are having more officers on the street. They have been rounding | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
people up all day. Two people have been jailed, for ten weeks and 16 | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
wickets respectively for their parts in the trouble. The police | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
say they are the first of many. Manchester magistrates' court is | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
opening from 7pm for a series of special sittings, to deal with more | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
than 100 people. An 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
arson. That follows the fire at the Selfridges Straw -- Selfridges | :05:57. | :06:07. | |
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Interesting details about the number of arrests. The youngest | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
person arrested last night by Greater Manchester Police was a 15 | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
year-old boy. But it was not just youths out on the street. The | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
oldest person arrested was a 58 year-old man. Greater Manchester | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
Fire Service also had a difficult night. They responded to 351 | :06:25. | :06:33. | |
incidents. That is five times the usual number. Across Liverpool, six | :06:33. | :06:43. | |
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fire engines were attacked and 11 properties were set on fire. And | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
although Cheshire saw a little disorder on the streets, eight | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
arrests were made for inciting disorder on social networking sites. | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
Well, here to talk about the situation in Manchester is council | :06:56. | :07:05. | |
leader Richard Leese. We have seen that there are more police on the | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
street. Are you confident they will write some of the mistakes of last | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
night? We have twice as many police on the streets tonight. That should | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
be enough to contain any potential disorder this evening. But this | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
will have to be kept up for a period of time. We need to get the | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
disorder under control and move on to making sure that those people | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
who have been responsible are taken to caught and punished. And you | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
have announced this afternoon that any child or family seem to be | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
involved in any of this criminality runs the risk of losing their | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
council home. That is a very tough measures. Is it helpful in the long | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
run? I think it is. We have to make sure parents to take responsibility | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
for their children. We do have this power that where a child is guilty | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
of antisocial behaviour, we can use eviction as a tool. The people of | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Manchester, to have their confidence restored, will need to | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
see very tough measures taken against these people. And in terms | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
of the financial cost to the city, do you know? It will run into | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
millions of pounds. We know that there rather a lot of independent | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
businesses at risk and today I have asked the Government to make sure | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
they provide support to those independent businesses. Has it made | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
you think again? I know it is still quite early on but has it made you | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
think again about horror perhaps you interact with some of these | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
young people, who clearly could not care less about the City that they | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
were born and raised and educated in? First of all, we have to | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
restore public order. Then we need to get confidence back. Then we | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
need a proper postmortem. I think every public organisation should | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
look at what they have done and what they could do better. Do you | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
feel any responsibility at all for this or are you putting it down to | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
parenting and things like that? This is criminal behaviour and the | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
criminals have to take responsibility for bat behaviour. | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
We saw this morning the sort of Manchester that most people want | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
and I think collectively we have to take that responsibility to create | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
that Manchester. And we will be seeing the good work that some | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
young people have done. But you cannot necessarily a stereotype -- | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
you cannot stereotyped the people involved. Someone treaty to say, | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
speechless, my cousin, from a comfortable background, pictured | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
rioting. But the violence was not just in Salford and -- in | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
Manchester, it was also in Salford. We have been speaking to some of | :09:45. | :09:55. | |
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Images that will live long in the memory. Here BBC Radio Manchester's | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
radio car is attacked. It was indiscriminate, violent and | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
frightening. On the streets today, the question is, who would do such | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
things and why? This teenager admits he was on the streets of | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
Salford last night, watching but not involved in the disturbances. | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
The kids are rioting because there is nothing to do. | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
REPORTER: There was a lot of looting going on, why? Windows are | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
smashed in shops and people are going to see the opportunity to go | :10:27. | :10:37. | |
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in and grab something. Is there any excuse for it? No, no. Jake the | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
street capture these images, a mechanical digger being stolen from | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
a construction yard in Salford at the height of yesterday's | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
disturbances. They started driving the did get out of the construction | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
yard and up the road at 30mph. These children could have killed | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
anyone. They could have wrecked thousands of pounds worth of cars. | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
I did not expected at all. other witnesses are too frightened | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
to be identified. This student in Salford watch a supermarket trashed. | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
When I saw people from my own residential block looting and being | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
involved in violence, I was totally stunned. I could not believe all | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
the people I have met here Libya who see normal common eyes, happy | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
people. Obviously they saw the opportunity and decided to be | :11:27. | :11:37. | |
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criminals. The hope today is that More from Ranvir, too, towards the | :11:41. | :11:51. | |
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Now, we have heard much over the last few days about a class of the | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
so-called feral youth. But today a different sort of young person came | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
out onto the streets of the North West. Their aim, simply to help. | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
Kate Simms reports now on how they, and others, joined the big clean up. | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
A difficult start to the working day for many businesses in Salford. | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
The shop is destroyed. But recruits were on hand to help. We need to | :12:21. | :12:31. | |
help. There is no need for it. are willing to fight the yobs. | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
Manchester, hundreds turned up in the rain after an overnight | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
campaign on social media, armed with pressures and backs to clean | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
up. Everybody today came together and they all knew what had to be | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
done and it has been done. It is to show that we are not all like that. | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
We are not going round looting. Some of us actually care about the | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
City. And then a bad businesses that had been attacked. These | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
people are normally out fitting lifts. Today we are helping | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
Manchester clean up. People have been coming in to work, walking | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
through a bomb site... Event the visiting Salford and P Hazel Blears | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
was given her clear orders. Get a brush and get stuck in. Manchester | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
City Council have worked hard through the early hours to make | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
sure it was business as usual here. Because of events overnight, the | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
morning after the night before is not quite as bad as everyone feared, | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
but although there is not as much for the volunteers to do, they say | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
they are keen to come right anyway and show their support. And anyone | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
showing support was given a clear message. Why would you attack? | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
do they attack London, Brannigan...? Because the corrupt | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
police is at they know -- need to be shown who the boss of England is. | :13:56. | :14:05. | |
There are people taking dip a stand So just what is the economic impact | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
of all this? Nationally, this is the figure, �100 million. In the | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
last hour and a half, Manchester's Arndale Centre closed its doors | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
early. Liverpool One also shut up shop as a precaution. Countless | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
smaller businesses have also taken a blow. Our economics correspondent | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
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Jayne Barrett is at Liverpool One We are well away from the burnt | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
cars and smashed windows of just a few miles away but even here, the | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
economic cost is being felt. Some shops here should as early as 4pm | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
yesterday, all by six, but the rest of the week they are going to close | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
early at 6:00pm. Liverpool Chamber of Commerce said the cost so far | :14:51. | :14:58. | |
just two businesses is �2.5 million. Let's hear some of their stories. | :14:58. | :15:06. | |
In Wavertree, a much-loved local pub trashed. Along the road, a | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
newsagents targeted. Small businesses, but businesses which | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
mean a lot to a community where investment is in short supply. | :15:14. | :15:23. | |
try to make an investment but, I don't know... Further along, this | :15:23. | :15:30. | |
man shows me his swannery arm, injured in a fight. -- Swarland arm. | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
Outside they are making new shutters but he does not know when | :15:34. | :15:43. | |
he will re-open. What can I do? I do not know. In Birkenhead, more | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
businesses targeted. The cost mounting across the region. In | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
Piccadilly, an archaic closed by the damage. These kids have is a | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
report eight or nine people out of work until we get this right. -- | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
easily port. Tonight again the Arndale Centre close early. They | :16:06. | :16:14. | |
say they are taking every step to stay ahead of the looters. We have | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
seen them targeting certain shops in the Birmingham, etc. We have | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
taken the stock out of the buildings and close early. | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
tonight, Greater Manchester Police urge businesses not to close. Life | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
must go on. It is a sentiment shared by one customer and this | :16:34. | :16:43. | |
Liverpool launderette. Workmen arrived to do fix the windows this | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
morning and found a woman inside doing her washing. She climbed | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
through the broken glass just to do her washing. Keep calm and carry on, | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
the message there. Take a look through this Apple shop window. | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
They are clearing away the shop as a precaution. Who, if anyone, will | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
those looters listen to? Perhaps Liverpool or Everton Football Club. | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
Tonight the two clubs have issued a statement calling for calm. Kenny | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
Dalglish says, please, stop this now. The city has an excellent | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
reputation. And Steven Gerrard, this city has always stood together | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
and supported each other. If you are thinking of going out tonight | :17:23. | :17:33. | |
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and causing trouble, please, please, There is playing -- social media is | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
playing a big part in the riots. Police Ding sides like Facebook, | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
Twitter, are being used to bring rioters together. But they are also | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
helping with the clean-up and forming a part of the police | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
These are the pictures of people who Greater Manchester Police are | :17:57. | :18:07. | |
They are on their flicker website website for anyone to see. They are | :18:07. | :18:15. | |
Updating it all the time. Also on the police's Facebook site, people | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
have been uploading their own pictures and videos. Already some | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
people have spotted someone they know. Our police forces have also | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
been very vocal on Twitter, with warnings to stay away from certain | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
areas. Another interesting development is the kind of offences | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
police are beginning to charge people with. In Lancashire, one man | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
has been charged with using Facebook to try to encourage | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
looting and in Cheshire, eight people were arrested on suspicion | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
of inciting public disorder through social media. Twitter is also being | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
used to help clean up. Last night almost as soon as the problems | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
began, a Twitter group is arranging a clean-up. Someone got in touch | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
with me and said, you are from Manchester and clearly care about | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
the community. Do you want to take over this Twitter account? It has | :19:09. | :19:18. | |
just taken on from there -- taken off from there. Also on Twitter, | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
plenty of Sadique centre shops saying they were open for business. | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
The role that social media is playing in these breads is only | :19:27. | :19:35. | |
likely to increase. -- in these Ever since the violence broke out, | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
people have been expressing their shock at the age of some of the | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
vandals involved. It is that children as young as ten were | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
looting from the shops. But why I used to live here damaging their | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
own cities? Here to try to make some sense of the door is Father | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
Phil Sumner and Sinead Andrews from the use mentoring charity, Reclaim. | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
Sinead, why are so many young people destroying their own city? | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
don't think many young people had brought about the consequences on | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
the city. It was more like following the fashion. It is all | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
over London and they thought they could do it here. Peer pressure, a | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
lot of older people going back they went and followed, thinking it was | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
all right for them to do it said they would do it, too. We also, of | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
course, saw the decent young people who turned out in force today to | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
clear up. Yes, we did, which was a very good show that we were not | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
giving up. It shows a different side. Was it because they were | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
ashamed of what are the young people had done? Yes, all over | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
Facebook last night were people's messages showing how a shame they | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
were. It was disgraceful, what I saw on TV going on in our city. We | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
have to live here and deal with it. If we destroy our city, what is in | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
it for us? We are always talking about cuts but what else will go | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
back into the city if we destroy it? Father Sumner, you saw the Moss | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
Side riots first hand at that time. Just compare the two, from what you | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
saw last night and what happened then. 30 years ago, there were many | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
people on the streets in Princess wrote in Moss Side. When the riot | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
took place, it took place in -- for a whole cocktail of reasons. They | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
are opportunists they, too, people going into the shops and bringing | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
out stuff that they have been asked to bring out on order. I suspect | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
that even now, the initial spark from the event in Tottenham, with | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
the young man killed, and after that it has just been a series | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
opportunists. Are they the same reasons that were there then in my | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
side? You cannot say they were not there then and this does not excuse | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
in any way the behaviour of young people. People have to take | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
responsibility for what they have done it at the same time, there is | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
a Poulter now, that is in nurturing individualism, commercialism, | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
wanting more and more and more. Wanting the adrenalin rush that | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
some people like solicitors have been getting involved in a football | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
hooliganism in the past. Now it is a different adrenaline rush that | :22:31. | :22:39. | |
people want to be involved in. interview I heard on BBC Radio 5 | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
Live this morning to, one of the youths involved was saying, come on, | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
what do we see? We see bankers, as he said, putting their hands in the | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
tills, getting themselves rich, and still despite having brilliant the | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
country still making big bonuses. We saw politicians putting their | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
hands in the till and getting as much as they could in expenses. Now | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
we are trying to get as much as we can, and people lecture us on | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
morality? Is very bad example set? There is. There is a lot of social | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
inequality but two wrongs do not make a right and fall has to do | :23:15. | :23:23. | |
this in our own city, it is -- it stereotypes us. I went out into the | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
city and got really good responses from people previously, doing a | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
project. Today people did not want to speak to us. They did not want | :23:31. | :23:41. | |
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We forecast the weather today at the start of the week. We knew the | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
rain would just keep on coming. The pictures reinforce what you know | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
already. The Met Office do still have a yellow warning. It is just | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
to really let people in parts of Cumbria and Lancashire know that | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
the brain will be fairly heavy as we go through the night. We have | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
already had significant totals. If you want to know exactly what that | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
means, go to the Met Office website. Here is the picture today. In the | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
more south-western corners of the region, it was not too bad | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
initially but once the rain arrived, it just sat right over the top of | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
us and the real telling thing of the covers. The green and blue mean | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
it the rain has been very heavy. Waiting in the wings, going through | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
parts of Merseyside and Cheshire, there is still some quite heavy | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
rain. It will keep on coming as we go through this evening and through | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
the night tonight. This is our lives skyline from Manchester. It | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
is very grey and damp. It just continues to come and go as the | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
night goes on. Every now and then you will have a break in the rain. | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
It will be dry for 20 minutes to half an hour. But the rain keeps on | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
coming and that is not great news. South-westerly breeze has been | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
strong ball through the day and continues to be strong through the | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
night tonight. It is a good direction. But for tomorrow, it is | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
more of the same but not as bad. It is grey, overcast and damp when you | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
first get up but damp rather than pouring down. Visibility is not | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
brilliant on high ground and then maybe misty fog. Because it is so | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
damp and humid the motorways will have a bit of spray. Visibility | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
will be an issue first thing in the morning for quite a few hours. | :25:34. | :25:41. | |
Through the day, the picture gets others are slightly better. -- ever | :25:41. | :25:51. | |
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We will be here after the 10pm news. And there are your local radio | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
stations. Radio Manchester stayed on air all last night to keep | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
people up-to-date with what was going on. Finally tonight, we will | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
go back to Ranvir in Manchester city centre. We are hearing there | :26:08. | :26:16. | |
are some skirmishes in Salford tonight, is that right? Yes, there | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
have been around Salford precinct, where things kicked off last night, | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
in the same area, bricks and stones have been thrown to around 20 | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
police officers with riot shields. A gang of around 100 youths, I am | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
told, are trying to get into a place called the Money shop. These | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
are skirmishes that have dispersed and congregated again. We will keep | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
abreast of that. Here, perhaps the weather is playing a part in | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
dampening down rioters. Let's hope it stays that way across the North | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
West. Let's take a look at some of the shocking images from last night. | :26:52. | :27:02. | |
They have nothing to protest against. There is nothing, no sense | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
of injustice, and no spark which has led to this. This has been | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
senseless violence and criminality on a scale that I have never seen | :27:10. | :27:20. | |
:27:20. | :27:23. | ||
before. This rioting and this and violence... When we were attacked, | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
and there were no police whatsoever here. When you walk around and see | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
the scale of damage, unbelievable. We want to see the maximum number | :27:34. | :27:39. |