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I was a 17 year old college student on the weekend of the worst ethnically motivated rioting to take place in Britain since 1985. I was at home in Glodwick, Oldham on that May weekend in 2001 and remember hearing helicopters and sirens and went out to investigate. I was shocked to find a huge crowd of mainly young Pakistani men who had gathered in the ‘Square’ in the centre of Glodwick to protest. There had been a rumour that a gang of far-right thugs had assaulted a pregnant Asian woman in a neighbouring area. The riots made world news, most of my family were in Bangladesh at the time and they saw what was happening on the news. They worriedly phoned my sister to get an update.