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Riot police tackle a mob after a number of cars are set alight in Hackney, north London on August 8, 2011.
Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011

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  • BORIS JOHNSON,
  • mayor of London, on Richard Mannington Bowes, a 68-year-old man who died from head injuries after being attacked during riots in West London on Monday, Aug. 8; Bowes was trying to stamp out a fire
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