The World - News from Oct. 2, 1985
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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