The World - News from Oct. 2, 1985
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Rioting erupted in Liverpool and flared again in London, with gangs of youths battling police and setting property afire only hours after Home Secretary Douglas Hurd warned of serious inner-city problems. In Liverpool’s predominantly black Toxteth district, scene of 1981 rioting, 10 people were arrested and one was seriously hurt in violence growing out of a murder hearing for four blacks. In London, youths hurled stones and gasoline bombs at police in the Peckham district near Brixton, scene of weekend looting and firebombing.
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