Hackney?

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Anyone in Hackney? How is it looking there?

i hope they dont go to chats, nothing is there.
just be careful all

Oh good luck Dr Polidori . Keep us posted, won't you? We're just around the corner if you need us.

I wonder if OYBBK is around? Any chance of heavy rain over London? Preferably now, lasting until at least midnight.

This is dreadful. Hope everybody is staying safe.

aw, thanks betsy.

It's on the BBC 1 News now - 200 arrests today.

Ongoing in Hackney - nothing yet about Lewisham.

the woman she they just talked to is a friend, I know the shopkeeper of the electrical good store...its surreal.

Rumour has it on twitter (and was validated by a tweet from WM Police) that it's going to kick off in birmingham tonight.

Bus set on fire in Peckham just being reported on Sky.

I hope it doesn't spread outside of London. If Brum kick off we'll have morons in every city out ruining out cities.

Get the army in now.

I'm not sure what I am seeing a line of flames can ebe seen in Lewisham probably a roy of buses or cars. Wankers!

They are setting vehicles alight in Lewisham. If any b fired my car that would be my family totally screwed and one has autism the other disabled with heart disease. Barstewards.

Someone or some people will lose their lives

Am sure ministers will be considering asking the army to have a role.

would all of this lead to a reconsideration of cuts in the police funding.

helicopters have gone for the moment. Hope that's it. But fear it may not be.

Harris got looted

Lewisham? Which part does anyone know?

I am in Croydon and they are ready for trouble here. This is just madness. Yes they need to involve the armed forces now!

Ch4 reporter in Hackney characterised the situation there as "fluid, volatile and violent".

Oh dear. I lived for many years in E5 (other end of the country now) - so sad to see this happening to local businesses - like they haven't got things hard enough atm .

The Blackberry thing - apparently (according to the BBC) their messaging service is much more difficult to trace than FB/Twitter, so people are using it to organise the violence.

Morons.

do we have any army left here to send in??

yes, a relative just called me to say she saw blokes mooching past their house carrying flatscreen tvs. They are so nice at harris' a real, local, family
business.

Why can't the Blackberry network be shut down? Surely the scale of the disruption would justify a shut off? Otherwise we'll be moving towards curfews and army on the street.

I am about 10 mins from Mare street and a bit nervous, although no shops nearby and the helicopters have gone...

if you go to BBC website there is a running tweet with updates as they happen - thinknig about you folk in Sth London.

Rumour that Woolwich is next.
Hope everyone living nearby/working tonight is as unaffected as they can be.