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A new documentary will revisit the Toxteth riots using vivid archive footage. Local filmmaker James Arthur Armstrong, 30, was given unique access to ITN’s newsreels from the early 1980s.
Leroy Alphonse Cooper's arrest on Selbourne Street, near Toxteth's infamous Granby Street, was watched by an angry crowd. It is said every riot has a spark, and the chaos and destruction of ...
THE Toxteth riots were sparked on a muggy evening in July 1981, when police intercepted a motorcyclist in Selbourne Street. A crowd gathered, name-calling grew into jostling and within minutes ...
During the riots that followed police used CS gas to control civil unrest for the first time on the British mainland. Claire Bose has been speaking to a man who took part in that rioting. Claire Bose: ...
his answer to the Toxteth riots, when the most serious rioting on mainland Britain highlighted poverty and racism in the city's police. The politician's visit may have been a time for celebration ...
The 95-year-old, who cut her teeth in the suffragette movement, sees a common thread running through the riots in Toxteth and more recent disturbances in Oldham, Burnley, Leeds, Bradford and even the ...
Forty years after riots broke out in Toxteth, changes sparked by the unrest have led to a “complete transformation” of Liverpool. During nine days of civil unrest in July 1981, 468 police ...
Forty years after riots broke out in Toxteth, changes sparked by the unrest have led to a “complete transformation” of Liverpool. During nine days of civil unrest in July 1981, 468 police ...
Forty years after riots broke out in Toxteth, changes sparked by the unrest have led to a “complete transformation” of Liverpool. During nine days of civil unrest in July 1981, 468 police officers ...
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