The Labour MP David Lammy attacked the Coalition’s handling of the findings by the Riots, Communities and Victims Panel

The Government has been accused of “insulting” the victims of the 2011 summer riots by burying their formal response to a report on the unrest and failing to act on its 63 recommendations.

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The shooting of Mark Duggan sparked the Tottenham riots

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Relatives meet with justice campaigners on anniversary of shooting that sparked London riots

Keith Blakelock was murdered 20 years ago

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Keith Blakelock was murdered 20 years ago

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Anthony Hilton: Time to engineer some recognition

We don't make enough fuss about the things we are good in this country and we do nothing like enough to celebrate our engineers, which is why on Thursday I was particularly pleased to be invited to present an award in the magnificent Great Room of the Institute of Civil Engineers.

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Tottenham host Arsenal this Sunday in the Premier League with both teams desperate for a win.

Tottenham defender Younes Kaboul

Anzhi Makhachkala to tempt Younes Kaboul to leave Tottenham

Defender will be offered £4m-a-year after tax according to reports

Kevin Hutchinson-Foster has been sentenced for passing the gun to Mark Duggan

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Gun had earlier been used to 'pistol whip' a barber until he was nearly unconscious

Bobby Moore, a class act whatever he wore

West Ham pay Bobby Moore tribute

West Ham will mark the 20th anniversary of Bobby Moore's death with a series of memorial events.

A new exhibition will show pictures from the riots in 2011

London riots are back in the frame

The photojournalist Lewis Whyld, 35, was sent to cover a party near St Paul's Cathedral on 6 August 2011.

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