Police are prevented from countering misinformation by laws which are outdated in the social media age, MPs investigating ...

Former Met detective Peter Bleksley has launched a scathing attack on the Southport riot report, dismissing it as "grade A ...

AN INFORMATION vacuum in the wake of the Southport murders led to lies and rumours on social media fuelling riots, MPs have ...

A mother who was handed a jail sentence over a social media post after the Southport stabbings has not been permitted to see ...

Fake news was allowed to spread due to prosecutors who “hampered” the police response to the Southport riots, MPs say. The ...

British lawmakers say outdated laws unfit for the social media age hampered police from countering false claims that helped ...

A PUBLIC inquiry into what went wrong in the lead-up to the Southport stabbings began its work yesterday.  It will look into ...

An investigation reveals that outdated laws hindered UK police in countering misinformation, which fueled anti-immigrant ...

Far-right extremism in schools has “intensified” since the Southport riots, with boys as young as 11 drawing swastikas and ...

A report by the Home Affairs Committee examined the police response to disorder that broke out after the murder of three ...

The Southport stabbing triggered one of the most severe outbreaks of social disorder in recent British history. According to the report, 246 incidents were recorded, 88 of which were classified as ...