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Hello and welcome to Coffeyhouse Shots, the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Megan McElroy and I'm joined by Katie Ball's and Paul Brand, UK editor of I TV News.

Last night, violence broke out in Southport after a vigil was held to remember the victims of Monday's knife attack.

Paul, you were reporting from the scene last night. Can you tell us more about that and also the atmosphere today?

Yeah, sure. So we arrived shortly before the

unrest began last night. They had been scheduled to be a protest at 8 o'clock in

the evening and when we got down there about quarter to eight it was already clear

there were large crowds mostly of men gathering they were coming into the town from lots of

different routes several different streets and residents certainly were saying to me they didn't

think these people were necessarily all local and it didn't take long at all actually

before the unrest began to unfold so they began

throwing bricks and stones and fireworks at a mosque which is right in the middle of the

town and when police confronted them trying to protect the mosque, the police then became a target of them as well.

So again, we're talking bricks being stripped from people's gardens, coping stones taken off the top of people's walls to hurt the police to hurt at the

mosque and then eventually the police van was set on fire and we now know I think it's around

50 officers now have been injured,

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