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Hello.

Almost 30 years ago to the day I sat with my two student lodgers in front of a tiny

television set in the back kitchen of my

terrace house in York and watched as the roads and shops and buildings that I'd

known from childhood were transformed into a battleground.

More than a hundred white and coloured youths fought a pitched battle against the police.

Some were as young as 12, the oldest no more than 20.

It lasted for eight hours.

The worst of the rioting came just after dawn

when police faced a hail of stones, bottles, iron bars and petrol bombs. The missiles were hurled from behind barricades of

upturned and burning cars. At daylight the police began a series of charges

to break up the gangs masked in front of them, but as the riotous fell back, they set fire to more

buildings, and sporadic looting, which have been going on all night, now spread.

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