MANCHESTER, U.K. - Television pictures showed flames leaping from shops and cars in Salford and Manchester, and plumes of thick black smoke billowing across roads.
In central Manchester, police said a clothes shop was set alight. "I can confirm a shop is on fire and 200 youths that gathered in the city center have been chased by riot police and dispersed. Seven arrests have been made so far," a spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said.
Further south in West Bromwich and Wolverhampton, cars were burned and stores raided.- A gang of up to 40 men firebombed a police station in the central English city of Nottingham but no injuries were reported, police said.
- "Canning Circus Police Station (in central Nottingham) fire bombed by a group of 30-40 males. No reports of injuries at this stage," said Nottinghamshire Police in a
message on their official Twitter feed. A message later said the fire had been extinguished and eight people had been arrested. - In Liverpool, a Reuters reporter saw police with riot shields pushing back youths hurling bricks.
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