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An 11-year-old child has become the youngest person to be arrested over the UK riots after he was detained over disorder in Middlesbrough. Cleveland Police confirmed it had arrested 14 people aged between 11 and 43 after it sent out 10 teams from its headquarters early on Wednesday to carry …

By Katherine Lawton Published: 12:21 BST, 12 August 2024 | Updated: 12:35 BST, 12 August 2024 More alleged ‘armchair thugs’ have been charged over the riots and are due in court accused of stirring up racial hatred on social media.  Geraint Boyce, 43, and Jamie Michael, 45, are accused of …

By Mail Foreign Service and Olivia Christie Published: 22:04 BST, 5 August 2024 | Updated: 03:08 BST, 6 August 2024 The Bangladeshi prime minister is thought to be seeking ‘political asylum’ in the UK after she fled the country by helicopter.  Sheikh Hasina, who had ruled Bangladesh for 15 years, …

Britain is braced for a weekend of unrest, as jail cells are cleared and lawyers put standby in the wake of the Southport stabbings. More than 35 rallies are planned in towns and cities across the UK, raising fears that scenes already seen this week of police being attacked and …

Peter Hitchens has slammed the ‘dangerous’ discussion of Islam as ‘some kind of nameless threat’ amid the violent riots that have exploded in the wake of the Southport stabbings. The columnist joined Andrew Pierce on the Mail’s talk show, The Reaction, to discuss the storm that erupted over false claims …

Nigel Farage has been accused of ‘inflaming’ the riot in Leeds by a local MP – as he flirted with American conservatives thousands of miles away. The Reform UK leader shared a post on X, formerly Twitter, as people torched a bus and set bonfires in the streets of Harehills …

The widow of the late ‘traveller king’ of Sheffield has threatened that there will be ‘war’ if the boxer’s £200,000 37-ton headstone which was built without permission is torn down. The marble gravestone, dedicated to Willy Collins, known to some as the ‘King of Sheffield’, remains in the city’s Shiregreen Cemetery, …

Riots continue to rage outside the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, where the military clashed with protesters on Wednesday morning as tensions surrounding the Israel-Hamas war flared and anger against the American response to it surged.  The rioters set fire the embassy last night and continued to hurl fireworks towards …