Today alone (Wednesday 7 August) there are reports of 30 locations where demonstrations by the far right are expected to take place.
What caused the riots?
It comes after false claims spread on social media that the suspect who committed the Southport murders at the end of last month was a Muslim asylum seeker who had arrived in the UK in a small boat. It was before his identity was confirmed.
Axel Rudakubana, 17, who was born in Cardiff and had been living in Banks, a village in Lancashire a few miles north of Southport, has been charged with three counts of murder and 10 counts of attempted murder.
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