UK fears new summer of unrest, year after Southport riots

EPPING: Concern is mounting in Britain that recent violent anti-immigrant protests could herald a new summer of unrest, a year after the UK was rocked by its worst riots in decades. Eighteen people have now been arrested since protests flared last week outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in the town of Epping, northeast of London, and seven people have been charged, Essex police said. In one demonstration, eight police officers were injured. The unrest was “not just a troubling one-off,” said the chairwoman of the Police Federation, Tiff Lynch. “It was a signal flare.

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