Photo Gallery Riots Spread Across Britain
Looting, street fighting and arson attacks continued to plague cities across England in a fourth night of rioting on Tuesday.
Here, police are seen arresting a person suspected of civil disturbances in Birmingham.
A large police presence could also be felt in Manchester on Tuesday.
Manchester and nearby Salford (seen here) was the site of the worst riots in Britain on Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning.
Several hundred marauding youth made their way through the center of Manchester and set fire to buildings, including this clothing store.
The damaged window of a retail store in the Manchester city center. Eyewitnesses said looting continued for hours because police were unable to hold back the mob.
Even CCTV security cameras did little to discourage looters at this shop in Manchester. However, local senior police official Garry Shewan told reporters: "Already today we have begun the process of arresting people whose images have been captured on CCTV and other media. My message is extremely simple -- hundreds and hundreds of people, we have your image, we have your face, we have your acts of wanton criminality on film. We are coming for you from today, and no matter how long it takes, we will arrest those people responsible."
Similar scenes were to be found in Birmingham, where rioting also occurred. This image shows a window of a damaged boutique store in the city center.
Randomly selected cars were also the subject of arson attacks in Birmingham.
In some places, looters calmly carried out stolen goods, such as here in Birmingham.
Barricades also burned in Liverpool on Tuesday night, a city where rioters attacked several firetrucks.
Burned cars can be seen here during civil disturbances in Salford near Manchester. Across Britain, police arrested some 470 people after a fourth night of rioting in the country. The mob violence has spread from London to Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham, Bristol and Leicester.
In Birmingham and the surrounding area, police arrested more than 100 rioters. In response to the growing crisis, the government cancelled holidays for police officers.
Here, spectators observe a car that had been set on fire in central Birmingham during an arson attack.
In a moment of irony, at least one passerby found some good in the altercations between rioters and police. Here a man can be seen holding his hands out over a burning trash can to keep warm. This week has also been unseasonably cold in Britain.
Here, police stand guard at an exclusive shopping and hotel complex in Birmingham to protect it from rioters.
