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Originally Posted by Josy (Post 4454109)

From the BBC

The Metropolitan Police say 685 arrests have been made in connection with disorder across London in recent days. Of those, 111 people have been charged.

Here's the breakdown of charges:

Burglary - 69
Public Order Act offences - 13
Assault on police - 2
Robbery - 3
Possession of offensive weapons - 5
Handling stolen goods - 6
Criminal damage - 1
Going equipped - 1
Drug offences - 3
Miscellaneous other offences - 8

Stupid question, but what's the difference between robbery and burglary?

Robbery is taking something from the victim,such as the lad with the backpack on where people robbed him of the contents.

Burglary is breaking into building/s with the intent to commit crime, not just necessarily theft.

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Originally Posted by Boothy (Post 4454153)

Stupid question, but what's the difference between robbery and burglary?

Think robbery is an attack on the person themself and burglary is breaking into a building and taking something

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Originally Posted by joeysteele (Post 4454171)

Robbery is taking something from the victim,such as the lad with the backpack on where people robbed him of the contents.
Burglary is breaking into building/s with the intent to commit crime, not just necessarily theft.

That made me fume so much :mad: :mad:

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Originally Posted by ~Kerry~ (Post 4454175)

That made me fume so much :mad: :mad:

I think it was despicable, pretending to help him and then doing that. These people are truly scum.

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Originally Posted by joeysteele (Post 4454180)

I think it was despicable, pretending to help him and then doing that. These people are truly scum.

Leeches. Ugly slimy sucking creatures

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Originally Posted by joeysteele (Post 4454171)

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Originally Posted by InOne (Post 4454172)

Think robbery is an attack on the person themself and burglary is breaking into a building and taking something

Ah, right. Cheers.

All seems a bit calmer tonight anyway, especially in London, hopefully that continues

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Originally Posted by MTVN (Post 4454200)

All seems a bit calmer tonight anyway, especially in London, hopefully that continues

Hope i'm wrong but I can see things kicking off there again, thugs there will be getting a buzz seeing it kicking off elsewhere and they'll not want to miss the chance to cause more trouble:bored:.

The only reason London is quiet is because all the officers are down there...including 500 from Manchester, who could have used them tonight

There have been shootings in Aston apparently.

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Originally Posted by Boothy (Post 4454263)

There have been shootings in Aston apparently.

that very bad but has nothing to do with the Riots

Reporters attacked

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Journalists and cameramen from Sky News, ITN and the BBC were attacked last night as London erupted into violence for the third consecutive night.

A crew from the BBC were confronted by rioters while trying to drive their van down London Road in Croydon, where a furniture store was earlier set ablaze and shops looted.

BBC producer Paraic O'Brien, who was driving the vehicle, told Journalism.co.uk that he had "never seen anything like it", describing the scenes in Croydon as "apocalyptic".

"There was all this debris on the road so we had to slow right down. I was driving and my cameraman was in the passenger seat, discreetly filming through a closed window, we had no lights in the car. In the back were two security guards and editing staff," he said.

"Then a crowd of kids gathered round the van and started shouting and chanting, and someone either hit the window with a metal bar or threw a brick through it.

"It was something of immense force, enough to dent the frame of the car, and the entire back window smashed in on the guys in the back. You get used to the usual abuse covering these things and you take it in your stride, but last night they were definitely targeting journalists."

ITN, the producer of ITV News, Channel 4 News and London Tonight, said that its broadcasting van was attacked in Tottenham earlier in the evening. Channel 4 News reporter Kris Jepson revealed on Twitter that camera equipment had been smashed during a scuffle with rioters.

Sky News reporter Mark Stone, who was off duty last night, left his home in Clapham Junction to cover the disturbance in the area using his iPhone.

At one stage, he asked a looter: "Are you proud of what you're doing?" A woman responded by saying that she was "just getting my taxes back". Stone was later chased away from the scene by rioters, but returned to report live from Clapham Junction using a Sky News satellite truck.

Sky News home news editor Mark Evans paid tribute to Stone's commitment and told The Guardian that all Sky's journalists had been given a security briefing this morning.

He said: "Mark's a very committed and brave young journalist. His use of kit shows how technically minded both he and Sky News are. We don't have the same kind of kit and resources that our competitors do and the use of iPhones and other tools allows us to be first."

CNN reporter Dan Rivers wore a helmet and what appeared to be body armour while he covered the rioting in Peckham. He was forced to retreat after objects were thrown at the police line.

However, the rolling news coverage proved a hit with viewers, delivering Sky News and the BBC News Channel their highest viewing figures for ten years.

Based on the number of viewers who tuned in for at least 15 minutes during the day, Sky News had a total reach of 6.81m yesterday, its highest audience since the Iraq War coverage in 2003.

The BBC News channel had a total reach of 8.8m, eclipsing its previous record of 8.5m on March 11 this year for coverage of the Japanese earthquake.

Also last night, the unrest across London enabled the BBC's flagship 10pm news bulletin to draw its biggest audience of the year, at 7.15m with a 32.6% share of the TV audience in its timeslot.

The BBC has so far received a total of 119 complaints about its coverage of the riots, with 70 accusing it of bias towards the police, 41 saying there was too much coverage and eight viewers upset at the BBC using the word "protestors" when it should have said criminals.

Social media services such as Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry Messenger have also come into the spotlight for the role they played during the disturbances.

2 asian people ran over and killed in Birmingham.

I bet theres not many happy insurance companies at the moment

Oh it just said on Sky News that Boris Johnson's holiday was cut short too

Oh dear. Shame

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Originally Posted by keithafc (Post 4454511)

2 asian people ran over and killed in Birmingham.

Events in birmingham seem to be on a smaller scale but are of a much more serious nature people shooting at the police and driving cars at people is sinister.
BBC confirming two dead and one seriously injured.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...ngham-14471405

west midlands police treating the incident in dudley as murder.

Birmingham ambulance service now saying 2 dead - one seriously injured. Nothing confirmed yet

Ugh, what a mess :(

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Originally Posted by ~Kerry~ (Post 4454598)

Birmingham ambulance service now saying 2 dead - one seriously injured. Nothing confirmed yet

Ugh, what a mess :(

sangat tv was at the hospital when they broke news to one of the people there that one of the people that had died was his brother it was heartbreaking.

sangat tv are making the mainstream news channels look like the pathetic waste of space that they are tonight.

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Originally Posted by bobnot (Post 4454603)

Oh :(

edit: Im withdrawing that for now they said it once then havent said it again.

This girl is an absolute knob

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14458424

This girl is an abomination to this country. She literally knows nothing about the country

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Originally Posted by Marc. (Post 4454631)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14458424

This girl is an abomination to this country. She literally knows nothing about the country

Yes
of course they attack a shop set Fire to it
and maybe poor folks above them can get their flat burnt to nothing
all because of piss heads like her.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...15_470x728.jpg

Criminals leaving a Sainsburys in Manchester.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...13_472x577.jpg

Manchester: Liam Gallagher's boutique clothes shop
PrettyGreen is attacked by rioters in Manchester, above,
and a shop-keeper announces he is closing early

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/...26_470x578.jpg

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1Ubj4Romk