Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing The August riots of 2011 brought an orgy of looting and burning to Manchester city centre and Salford.
For a few extraordinary hours, the forces of law and order lost control of the streets. The scenes followed the Metropolitan police shooting of Mark Duggan, whose death at first led to protest in the capital, and then a viral waveof disturbances across the country.
Manchester Evening News reporter Steve Robson was on Salford Precinct when disorder erupted on a scale that drew the eyes of the world to our region.
Here, ten years on, he looks back on those awful events,talks to the shopkeepers who faced losing everything, and examines the social backdrop and
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