Woolpack Pub, Whetley Close, Manningham, Bradford UK. 8 July 2001. The pub is now a high fashion shoe shop. The Bradford Riots were a short but inten
Woolpack Pub, Whetley Close, Manningham, Bradford UK. 8 July 2001. The pub is now a high fashion shoe shop. The Bradford Riots were a short but intense period of rioting which began on 7 July 2001, in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It was recorded as the worst riots ever seen on mainland Britain. Perceived tensions between ethnic minority communities and the city's white majority, precipitated by confrontation between the Anti-Nazi League and far right groups such as the British National Party (BNP) were possible reasons given for the riot. The number of convictions for riot was unprecedented in English legal history and the estimated damage was put at £7 million. Similar so-called ´race riots` had occurred earlier in May in Oldham and in June in Burnley and other parts of northern England. Tensions rose after the National Front/BNP attempted to organise a march in the city which was banned by Home Secretary David Blunkett under the Public Order Act 1986. The Anti Nazi League organised a rally in Centenary Square in the centre of the city, which was allowed to proceed. During the course of the rally, a rumour was spread by some of the marchers that National Front/BNP sympathisers were gathering at a pub in the centre of Bradford. A confrontation then occurred outside the pub in the city centre during which a man was stabbed. According to the appeal court, this incident almost certainly triggered the riot but many possible reasons were given in the Ouseley Report released 7 March 2005, which recommended a "people's programme" to bring harmony to the city. The government subsequently commissioned the Cantle report which made 67 recommendations
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