Riots in Rotherham, Hull, Middlesborough, Leeds and across the UK - Today's News headlines
'Staggering surge of violence' as people arrested across uk.
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00:00Hi, I'm Sophie Malan-Malin and here are today's headlines.
00:06You will regret this. They're the words of the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in
00:12reaction to the riots that broke out across the country at the weekend, including in Leeds,
00:19Hull, Middlesbrough and Rotherham. Extra riot police and prosecutors have been put in place
00:26across the country. It's been called an act of far-right thuggery.
00:33Riots have been breaking out across the country since the tragic killing of three children
00:38in Southport last week. These are just some of the shocking scenes as 55 people in Teesside
00:46alone have been arrested in the past week. This was a scene from Rotherham at the weekend.
00:52We'll have the latest from the aftermath in Rotherham as well as elsewhere across Yorkshire.
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