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One year on, this is how the Southport attack has changed Britain
A year ago today, 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana walked into the Hart Space dance studio in Meols Cop, Southport, where 26 ...
Southport murders one year on from girls' brave fight to 'most dangerous' prisoner
As Southport marks one year since the tragic murders of Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9, ...
Southport’s Muslims still plagued by Islamophobic incidents a year on from race riots, imam says
The mosque found itself at the centre of nationwide race riots last July after misinformation spread online about the ...
One Day in Southport forgets the tragedy at the heart of the film
One Day in Southport (Channel 4) purported to be a documentary about the devastating tragedy that unfolded at a Taylor Swift ...
Institute for Public Policy Research16hOpinion
Places to come together: Rebuilding local solidarities against the far right
In late July 2024, the seaside town of Southport in Merseyside burst into the national consciousness when it suffered two ...
Channel 4 Southport show sparks fury as outraged viewers brand it 'blatant propaganda'
Channel 4 has sparked fury with documentary One Day in Southport, which highlighted the riots following the murders of three ...
The Economist5d
A year after Britain’s riots, things have deteriorated
Some were more like organised assaults than protests. Few attendees carried placards, although some were draped in British or ...
I couldn’t breathe & felt I was dying after Southport killer knifed my spine… I knew from his eyes he wanted to kill us
A TEENAGE survivor of Axel Rudakubana’s murderous rampage in a Southport dance class has described the moment she first saw the killer – saying he looked “possessed”. The girl, who was 13 at ...
The Planner14h
Decline of community spaces contributed to Southport unrest, report indicates
The widespread closure of community spaces fuelled ‘tinderbox’ conditions in Southport last year that resulted in widespread rioting, according to a report from the Institute for Public Policy and ...
Closure of community spaces fuelled ‘tinderbox’ for far right to spark Southport riots, says report
New report says loss of shared community spaces – from youth clubs to high street pubs – is leaving communities more vulnerable to far-right influence ...
Public inquiry begins into ‘horrific’ Southport murders
The public inquiry into the murders of three young girls in Southport last summer will begin later on Tuesday. Chairman Sir Adrian Fulford, a former vice-president of the Court of Appeal, will begin ...