Lauren Moss
Reporting from Southport

I've been speaking to Gemma, whose family we reported on earlier as they cleaned up the streets. She described what happened on Monday as every parent’s worst nightmare.

Her daughter wanted to take part in the Taylor Swift-themed class that was attacked on Monday, but it was fully booked.

When police named the three children who were killed in the attack and released their pictures, her daughter Evelyn recognised Bebe King as a friend from a dance class.

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I’ve spoken to Norman Wallis - he is the CEO of Southport Pleasure Land, an amusement park in the town.

"Last night I saw what was happening so I posted on social media that we meet up in the morning to clean up the mess," he says.

"The community came together and has shown such community spirit."

He says the damage caused by the rioters was "shocking".

"They knocked walls down and used the bricks to throw at the police, they damaged cars and broke windows.

"I couldn’t believe it – people in masks were climbing on lampposts on a quiet residential street.

“Southport is a safe and close community so for this to happen is horrendous. These cowards have come in and hijacked this one off situation."

More now from the Merseyside Police Chief Constable on the children receiving treatment in hospital.

"In terms of the little girls that are in hospital, none of them have been released yet - they are still receiving treatment," Serena Kennedy says.

As a reminder, three children were killed in the dance class in Southport on Monday, with eight other children stabbed. Five were in a critical condition.

The "fast-moving" investigation into the knife attacks on Monday is "progressing well", Kennedy adds.

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Speaking in Southport, Merseyside Police Chief Constable Serena Kennedy says last night's rioters will feel "the full force of the law".

Kennedy also updates the number of officers injured - she says 54 were hurt, with 49 were from Merseyside Police and others from elsewhere.

Kennedy says the force is "absolutely planning" for this evening and the weekend ahead, with support from police forces across the North West - "so that we don’t see a repeat of last night".

She insists "we absolutely were not caught unawares last night".

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As we've been reporting, dozens of volunteers have helped clear up the streets of Southport after last night's riots.

We've just had these pictures of the fire service helping to replace smashed windows on the mosque.

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Reform leader Nigel Farage has rejected accusations that comments he made on Tuesday "whipped up" rioters last night.

Within a video posted on X last night, Farage expressed his "horror" at what happened on Monday, but also posed some questions.

"Was this guy being monitored by the security services? Some reports say he was, others less sure," he says.

"The police say it's a non-terror incident [...] I just wonder whether the truth is being withheld from us. I don't know the answer to that, but I think it is a fair and legitimate question."

James Cleverly is among those who have criticised the comments, telling the House of Commons "we have a personal responsibility to check before we share".

This morning on Radio 4, Brendan Cox - who was married to the murdered MP Jo Cox - said it was "beyond the pale to use a moment like this to spread your narrative and to spread your hatred".

But in response, Farage says it's "perfectly reasonable to ask what is happening to law and order in our country".

As for Cox’s comparison of Farage being "no better than a Tommy Robinson in a suit" Farage says "the comment is beneath contempt".

Lauren Moss
Reporting from Southport

David lives around the corner from where the riots took place last night. He has been helping clear up since 06:30 this morning.

He came down last night after seeing the helicopter hovering - he saw the riot and describes a "sea of people," some with masks on.

He stresses that what has happened today, the clean up, is "what the community of Southport is about".

"We're human beings - you don't need to fight hate with hate, fight it with love."

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People in Southport are defiant as they deal with the aftermath of last night’s damage.

One of those I speak to is Beatrice, 19, who’s grabbed a broom and is helping to clean up. She wants the focus to be back on the victims of the original attack.

"Some of the little girls, the impact’s been taken off them," she tells me.

"We want to get the clean-up done so it can be back on those girls and the families and their loss."

She says Southport is strong.

"A whole community’s come out. Hundreds of people have come here to help.

"It just shows we’re a diverse community. That’s what makes Southport, Southport and Britain, Britain."

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We earlier heard from the chair of Southport mosque, Ibrahim Hussein - and he has now spoken to reporters from outside the damaged building.

Ibrahim Hussein says he was trapped in the mosque with around eight others and at one point, thought rioters would break in and "burn the place down".

He managed to leave at approximately midnight with a police officer, he says. He calls it a "terrifying" night.

This morning, residents brought flowers to the mosque and organised repairs, he says.

"That was humbling. It really was humbling."

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Sebastian Taylor, 10, helped clean the area near Southport mosque alongside his sister Evelyn, 7, and his mother Gemma.

"Last night was just horrible, so we were like 'you know what, we should help because everyone was helping'," he tells the PA News agency.

"We were sweeping up bricks and metal and bottles, and we were sweeping up burnt pieces of bins which had been on fire."

His family doesn't live far from the scene. "It was really scary," he says.

His mum Gemma adds: "The first I saw was a load of people walking down our road which you wouldn't walk down unless you lived down there.

"I thought 'it's happening' and got them [her family] all upstairs and shut all the blinds."

Police have been given more time to question the 17-year-old arrested on suspicion of the Southport knife attacks.

The teenager, who has not been named, remains in custody having been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.

Three girls - Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven - were fatally stabbed in Southport on Monday.

Lauren Moss
Reporting from Southport

On Sussex Road in Southport, one elderly woman tells me what she saw in last night's riot.

Crowds of people used their bare hands to peel the tiles from the pavement outside her flat and throw them at buildings along the street, she says.

People grabbed wheelie bins, which had been left out for bin day, and set fire to them in the middle of the road.

All of the residents I’ve spoken to here today are in shock ast last night's violence, but also defiant. They have been here since dawn clearing up the broken bricks, glass and bottles.

There’s a huge feeling of people coming together, with people handing out toast and water to those cleaning up and to reporters as well. That is not something I've experienced very often before.

The clean up and the kindness we are seeing here today is the Southport the locals want the world to know about - not the violence we saw last night.

Lauren Moss
Reporting from Southport

Imadur Rahman and Sadik Khan both attend the mosque that was attacked in last night's riot.

They were not there last night but watched the coverage online. Rahman describes the violence as "very unacceptable" and adds that he feels "unsafe to stay in Southport".

He's worried this could create a "big issue".

For Sadik Khan, who came to help clean up this morning, the local people are "very friendly" and were "concerned about the mosque, about the people around here, about the community, about the children".

"Whatever happened it was terrifying," he adds.

Shopkeeper Chanaka Balasuryla's store was looted during last night's riots.

He says he called 999 after spotting men trying to smash their way inside via CCTV footage from his nearby home.

He was "terrified" when he thought they would set fire to the minimart, as a mother lives above the premises with her daughter.

Balasuryla says he later found out the mother confronted the raiders, telling them it was her shop in an attempt to stop them.

When he turned up this morning, Balasuryla says it was "horrendous" and "everything was on the floor".

He says the looters were eating inside the shop as there were crisps and sweets everywhere.

He believes they stole more than £10,000 of stock, mainly cigarettes and alcohol, just after he'd "stocked up".

Balasuryla says he doesn't have insurance to cover the damage - but says the Southport community has rallied around.

"I got a couple of hours' sleep and then got a phone call saying: 'You need to come down - there's lots of people waiting to help."

• On Tuesday, Merseyside Police named the three girls who died in Monday's attack on a dance class in Southport
• They were Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine

• Five children and two adults remain in a critical condition
• The Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool said it treated seven children - two remain in critical care but are stable

• A 17-year-old boy from Banks, near Southport, has been arrested on suspicion of murder - he cannot be named because of his age

• The suspect was born in Cardiff to Rwandan parents and moved to the Southport area in 2013

Our colleagues on the Nicky Campbell show on Radio 5 live have spoken to Karl, a Southport resident, whose daughter was friends with one of the girls killed - Bebe King, aged 6.

"What I’ve seen unfold over the last couple of days are all the good and bad sides of humanity in its extreme form," he says.

On the clean-up after last night's riot, Karl says: "You feel proud more than anything. When I went up there last night, it was people clearly from all over the country with a joined-up agenda to make as much trouble as possible.

"Got up this morning and it’s like it’s never happened. People of all backgrounds, all ages, pulling together - local business, vans, diggers - people sweeping up.

"There’s a small group of people that want to make life tougher for everyone. But what I witnessed was a group of people in Southport that have just come together. Whatever you throw at us, good finds a way."

He says he told his daughter this morning about Bebe's death.

"The reaction of a child puts everything in perspective," he says.

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18:00 BST

• More than a thousand people gather in Southport at a vigil for the victims of Monday's dance class attack

From 19:45 BST

• A large group gathers outside the Southport mosque, chanting abuse and smashing windows, the chair says

• Breaking garden walls, the rioters throw bricks, bottles and rocks at police and set a police van alight

21:00 BST

• Police clear the area around the mosque, but rioters continue to attack police

00:00 BST

• Merseyside Police says 22 officers were injured. Of those, eight had serious injuries including fractures, lacerations, a suspected broken nose, and concussion. Other officers suffered head injuries and one was knocked unconscious

01:30 BST

• North West Ambulance Service says it treated 39 police officers - 27 were taken to hospital

08:00 BST

• Chairman of Merseyside Police Federation Chris McGlade says more than 50 officers were hurt in the "sustained and vicious attack"

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Nicky Schiller
Reporting in Southport

What I have seen this morning is once again the power of the local community coming together.

When I arrived there were piles of rubble in the street, JCBs and skips.

Now the road is completely clear - all done in a matter of hours.

One local resident Tony - who brought his own broom down - told me it was an "extraordinary" effort by the local community.

Outside the mosque that was attacked last night, locals have been helping to make safe a wall that was damaged. I saw two young children with brooms helping to clean away some of the debris.

This is what the locals want the world to see - and not what the local MP has called the "thugs" who came here last night.

A resident in Southport has just spoken to our colleagues on 5 Live, calling last night's riots "insulting".

Stuart says "we’re a community in grief" and the girls who were killed "don’t deserve to have their memory besmirched".

“What have the police done? Why take it out on the police?" he says.

Stuart says several businesses, including bricklayers and glazers, have offered their services free of charge to repair the damage.

He adds: "Before Monday, I would have told anyone not from the area this is a great place to live. It’s a great place to bring up a family, you feel safe and secure. Yesterday and Monday shattered those illusions.

"We have a daughter who would have loved to attend that session [where three girls were killed on Monday]. We’re just lucky - there’s just no word other than that."

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