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Anger with police fuelled summer riots
• Landmark study uncovers main motivations behind worst civil unrest in a generation
• Gangs, social media, poverty and anger at the police all cited by those who took part
• Many of those who rioted think it will happen again and say they would participate
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Rebels with a cause? Claim of 'payback' against the police
Again and again, rioters from around the country described the police as a 'gang', claiming its officers enforced a law with which they themselves played fast and loose
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'Police arrest people for no reason'
Paul Lewis presents testimony from those involved, many of whom are speaking for the first time -
Interactive timeline
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Comment
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Full coverage
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A data-driven study into the causes and consequences of the August riots
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How we collected and analysed 1.3m words of rioters' first-person accounts
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Profiles
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Who were the rioters?
Many who took to the streets had never been in trouble with the law -
Mapping the riots
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How rioters travelled to trouble
Transport mapping specialists ITO World have modelled the most likely routes taken by rioters -
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Rioters in their own words
Witnesses and participants talk about what they saw, why they took part and what they think was the cause
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Income inequality 'growing faster in UK' than elsewhere
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Michael Billington's shows of 2011
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World of fantasy: Jack Vance
Alison Flood: As well as keying into the chilly thrills of dying sun stories, his work is the motherlode for much subsequent fantasy -
No sense in disability benefits limit
Shana Pezaro: There's no evidence that people are going to be well enough to work in the time proposed -
Third of Scots back independence
Nearly a third in favour of increasing powers, though support is dependent on whether it would improve prosperity -
What we can learn from penguins
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Make your iPhone baby friendly
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How do prisoners get so fit?
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Five things we learned this weekend
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Havelange resigns from IOC
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Tiger Woods ends two-year drought
Tiger Woods has finally won a tournament again after triumphing in the Chevron World Classic
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'Vegas of the west of Ireland'
Lisa Hannigan, a veteran of Other Voices, talks about what the festival means to her
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Youths on trial need people who care
At 17, Ryan Matthews was facing the death penalty. What mattered was the knowledge someone cared about his case
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Eve Ensler: 'DRC women will rise up'
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Audio: Science Weekly: Durban summit – deal or no deal? (39min 30sec)
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