Britons say Cameron failed to provide leadership on riots

More than half of Britons think Prime Minister David Cameron failed to provide leadership early enough to control riots that erupted in London and spread to other cities, a survey showed on Friday.The results of the ComRes poll for The Independent newspaper chimed with those of an ICM survey for The Guardian, in which only 30 percent said Cameron responded well to the riots while 44 percent thought the opposite.The ComRes survey also found that only 36 percent have confidence in Cameron's leadership of Britain in general. A different poll by Reuters/Ipsos MORI on July 20 said only 38 percent were happy with the way he was doing his job.Fifty-four percent said Cameron, who did not return from holiday until the riots reached their peak on Monday, had failed to provide leadership early enough.Five...

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Brothers Shazad Ali and Abdul Musavir, 32 and 30, and Haroon Jahan, 19, were part of a group of Asian men who were hit by a car while attempting to protect their area from looters in Birmingham.

"I'm proud of the community that just shook my hand. I'm proud of the people that are here today, standing in support with me and my friend Mr Ghazanfar Ali here. But I hope the youngsters listen to the elder community and go back to the way we were all living together," Jahan's father Tarik said.Police have launched a murder inquiry after all three Muslim men died from their injuries.Several men have since been arrest...

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18-year-old ambassador appears at Westminster magistrates court after allegedly hurling bricks at police car in Enfield

An Olympics ambassador allegedly hurled bricks at a police car in a frenzied attack during the London riots that forced officers to flee.Chelsea Ives, 18, also took part in attacks on mobile phone stores in Enfield, north London, on Sunday night, Westminster magistrates court heard.Ives, who has met London mayor Boris Johnson and London Olympics chief Sebastian Coe and visited the House of Commons, was reported to the police by her mother Adrienne, who said she saw her throwing bricks at a police car on a BBC news report.The teenager, whose lawyer described her as a "talented sportswoman", boasted that she was having "the best day ever", the court heard.Prosecutor Becky Owen said Ives had led an attack on a Vodafone store. "She was first to pick up masonry and hurl it at the window," she told...

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Police station fire bombed as violence erupts for fourth night in UK

Police in the central England city of Nottingham say a group of 30 to 40 men fire bombed a police station as violent rioting which has swept Britain for four days reached another part of the country.Nottinghamshire Police said that a police station in the Canning Circus area of the city’s centre has come under attack, but that there are no reports of injures. Several men were arrested at the scene.&nb...

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Riots spread north as capital cools

Rioting and looting has spread to Manchester and the Midlands from London with plans to prevent a fourth night of violence on the streets of the capital appearing to have worked.Prime Minister David Cameron flew back from his holiday early to join police chiefs in warning rioters they would face the full weight of the law. He chaired a meeting of the Government's emergency Cobra committee, with another due to take place at 9am on Wednesday.Businesses and shops across the capital shut down early in a bid to avoid attack from the gangs of youths who have ransacked buildings across the city over the previous days.The Metropolitan Police flooded the streets with officers - nearly three times as many as were on duty last night - to quash concerns...

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Olympic host city under scrutiny amid London riots

few miles from the worst violence to hit the city in 25 years, beach volleyball players dived headlong in the sand, the most summery of Olympic sports on display less than a year before the London Games.The matches were played under the shadow of the London Eye big wheel, and not far from Buckingham Palace and No. 10 Downing Street. Yet no historic backdrop could block the images of rioting and looting that have swept the city the past three days and left a mark on British sports.The soccer game between England and the Netherlands at Wembley was the biggest casualty. And as IOC officials arrived to review progress leading to the 2012 Games, they were greeted by a forbidding landscape a short way from where the Olympics will unfold.Plumes of...

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