A report by a regional newspaper into the Toxteth area of Liverpool, 25 years on from a popular uprising in the area that shook the city, has found that promises to invest heavily from the government ...

A serious crash just streets from where Yusef Sonko was shot dead on Friday night in Toxteth is not linked to the murder probe. Police closed part of Croxteth Road after a motorbike collided with two ...

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Liverpool's Toxteth area still sufferers from many of the problems which helped spark rioting 20 years ago, writes BBC News Online's Finlo Rohrer. More than a week of rioting in 1981 left Toxteth, an ...

As in Toxteth in 1981, the people rioting today are mostly angry young men from left-behind communities who feel they have no stake in society On hot summer nights when tensions ran high, we prayed ...

Merseyside Police cordoned off two roads in Toxteth tonight (Friday, May 22) after a man was slashed across the face. A man in his 20s was slashed in the face on Asbridge Street, just off Lodge Lodge, ...

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The man whose arrest sparked the Toxteth riots has said an exhibition of his photos was a "labour of love" after 40 years of telling the story of his city on the streets. Leroy Cooper was 20 when his ...