Police stations attacked by gangs
BBC News
The flames were extinguished and eight people have been arrested Clarendon College in Sherwood Rise was fire bombed. Fire crews extinguished the blaze, but the building has been seriously damaged The Golden Fleece public house on Mansfield Road and the …

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Britain's in crisis: the real causes of chaos on streets
CITY A.M.
Equally tragically, most of the older rioters would never have any hope of going to university, regardless of cost, such is their educational poverty. What they wanted is free money and free goods and so they helped themselves. …

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Tributes paid to celebrity chef
Kent Online
Mr Bukht, who was born in Wales of an Indian father and Welsh mother but lived in Canterbury, was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School and Kings College, London, where he read history. He started his broadcasting career as a trainee at the BBC and …

Kenny Dalglish: A day with the King
Belfast Telegraph
10.29am: Climbs into a silver-grey Range Rover and is driven to the University of Ulster's Jordanstown Campus. 11.01am: Dalglish, who was awarded an honorary doctorate by UUJ earlier this summer, arrives at the sports complex and is taken indoors where …
Kenny Dalglish Endorses Boccia World CupUniversity of Ulster Online

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Manchester marks Rutherford centenary
BBC News
Until the end of October, Mosi is hosting an exhibition that celebrates the pioneering work of Rutherford, much of which was carried out while he was the Langworthy Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester. Visitors will be able to see a …

How gangs have taken the place of parents in urban ghettoes
The Independent
The growing acceptance of this culture has helped create cases such as Alex Mulumba, a 15-year-old who was stabbed to death in 2006, leaving his father to say that his boy, apparently a diligent student, had "wanted to go to college and do electrical …

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14-year-old boy is among hundreds of rioters facing charges
The Independent
The adult courts dealt with 21 men and three women including a self-employed car salesman, an organic chef and a university student. For some, it was their first court appearance. One man stood accused of beating a police officer with the officer's own …

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New Chief Financial Officer appointed at Imperial College London
Imperial College London
It was ranked 3 rd in Europe and 9 th in the world in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2010-11. On Mr Sanderson's appointment, Mr Andrew Murphy, who has served as Acting Chief Financial Officer since December 2010, will return to …

London riots: 'A generation who don't respect their parents or police'
The Guardian
University fees have gone up, education costs money. And there's no jobs. This is them sending out a message." The same depressing picture – a mixture of alienation, anger at the police, boredom and mischief – was reiterated by locals across the …
Shops smashed by crowd in SalfordBBC News
London riots: international reactionTelegraph.co.uk
Mobile mobs keep a step ahead of policeFinancial Times
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The power of the hoodie
The Guardian
"Leisure- and sportswear adopted for everyday wear suggests a distance from the world of office [suit] or school [uniform]," Angela McRobbie, professor of communications at Goldsmiths College, once told the Guardian. "Rap culture celebrates defiance, …

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