Good morning. After a third day and night of rioting and looting, disturbances spread from the centre of London to the outer fringes of the city and to other cities, with similar scenes repeated in Birmingham, Nottingham, Liverpool and Bristol. Welcome to our latest live blog.
Here's a summary of the Monday's events:
• Rioting spread throughout London from Monday afternoon onwards and into the early hours of Tuesday morning. Police struggled to cope with multiple outbreaks of looting as well as sustained violence in several places, most notably on an estate in Hackney.
• Sustained looting, violence and attacks on property stretched from Ealing in the west, Enfield in the north, Hackney in the east, and as far south as Croydon. Shops and businesses were looted while scores of cars and buses were set alight. Huge fires were started in Enfield, where a Sony distribution centre on an industrial estate was destroyed, and in Croydon where a large furniture showroom and nearby homes were engulfed, with fires continuing around London Road.
• David Cameron cut short his holiday in Italy and arrived back in the country in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Cameron plans to chair a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee. London mayor Boris Johnson also plans to return to the city later in the day.
• Trouble has spread to other cities in the UK, including Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool. In Bristol, police reported 150 rioters moving through the city centre. In Nottingham, police had to deal with a crowd of 100. Merseyside police faced burning cars and criminal damage in south Liverpool, while there was repeated looting in the centre of Birmingham and violence elsewhere in the city, with an empty police station being set on fire.
• The Metropolitan police in London reported that 334 people have now been arrested, while 69 people have been charged and two cautioned. In Birmingham, police said around 100 people have been arrested.
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