Riots spread across major cities
Riots spread across major cities for a third night including Birmingham, Liverpool, Nottingham, Bristol and London. British Prime Minster David Cameron said the government will do everything necessary to restore
order and went on to announce 16,000 police will be deployed across the whole of London tonight as violence continues to flare.
A visibly-stunned Boris Johnson facing News cameras and public wrath said: ''I want to say to everybody who runs a shop or owns a business here how very sorry I am for the loss and the damage you have suffered, adding ''I also want to say to the people who have been involved in instigating these riots and those who have been robbing and stealing that they will be caught, they will be apprehended and they will face punishments they will bitterly regret.
One woman told him: ''I was in a salon when a brick came through the window and no one was here to defend me. Johnson responded with ''I know there are questions about the police response and police numbers. We are certainly going to be dealing with those.''
One of London's most prominent and liberal MP's has called for a curfew to be imposed this evening. In a sign that attitudes are hardening after a night of rioting, Hackney MP Diane Abbott, who is usually associated with civil liberties campaigns, called for the move after surveying the wreckage on her constituency.
Police too said the instant messaging service on BlackBerry smartphones, thought to be used by London rioters to organize themselves, may be suspended tonight.
Online polls have found that a healthy majority of the public believe the action is a suitable response to the crisis.
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