They were both always smartly dressed and the kids were very nice. They were a totally normal family; this is unreal.”The mother is thought to have worked part-time at a Sainsbury’s supermarket in South Ruislip, and the family were said to be considering a move to Dorset.”They had been looking at Bournemouth,” said Mr Roper “They wanted to go down there. She was lovely, always smiling, often spoke to my wife, because we had thought of moving to Dorset as well.”She had just bought a dartboard from the shop for the boy, and was worried about the darts because she didn’t want him to come to any harm.”Brian Harris, a retired engineer, said: “The woman is attractive and bubbly and the children are very nice. Generally speaking this is a quiet area, and it’s a great shock to have something like this happen.”Detective Superintendent Nigel Mawer, of the Metropolitan Police serious crimes group, said: “Post-mortem examinations will be carried out, and an inquest will be opened.”We are investigating the deaths of four persons at an address in Harrow. The police were called at 10.45am after a friend visited the address and was unable to gain entry.”Police officers who attended found four bodies … Formal identification is still awaited, but we believe they are the family resident at the address.”A post-mortem will be carried out tomorrow morning, [Monday] and at this early stage it is not thought there is anybody else involved, but I am keeping an open mind.”.

Extra police patrols were on the streets of Oldham last night after violence flared between rival gangs of white and Asian youths. Extra police patrols were on the streets of Oldham last night after violence flared between rival gangs of white and Asian youths.
Petrol bombs were thrown and windows smashed after a series of stand-offs between riot police and rival factions on Saturday afternoon. Fighting continued into the early hours of yesterday as pre-existing racial tension was exacerbated by members of the National Front (NF) and anti-Nazi protesters, who travelled to the town to take part in rival demonstrations.Three petrol bombs were thrown into roads by Asian youths, and gangs of white males smashed windows and damaged houses while shouting racist abuse at residents. A couple claimed they had their car attacked and the back windscreen smashed as they rescued a 17-year-old white youth who was being beaten up by an Asian gang.

They said they were surrounded by young men wielding baseball bats.The trouble had died down by yesterday morning, but Greater Manchester Police said tension remained high and they were mounting extra patrols. More officers were on stand-by if fighting flared again, a spokesman said. “There are systems in place to forewarn us as far as possible of any trouble,” he addedAs tension mounted in Oldham, the violence spread to Bradford, West Yorkshire, when two white men were attacked and beaten, leaving one unconscious, by a gang of Asian youths. The two men, brothers aged 26 and 28, were set upon by up to 12 Asian men as they walked through the Westgate area of the city. One of the men suffered a fractured skull and was taken to Bradford Royal Infirmary. Police said they were treating the attack as “racially motivated”.More than 500 officers were on duty in Oldham on Saturday in an “unprecedented show of strength” to stop the NF’s attempt to continue with a banned march through the town. Right-wing extremists brandished pictures of Walter Chamberlain, 76, who was savagely beaten in an alleged racist attack.Gangs of Asian youths gathered in areas said to have been declared “no-go areas” for white people, which were expected to be the focus of attacks.

But riot squad officers penned in the 30 NF supporters and separated them from Anti-Nazi League sympathisers. They were later escorted out of the town.Police arrested 17 people for a variety of public order offences and for the possession of offensive weapons, including a canister of CS gas. There were large numbers of minor injuries, including two to police officers.Chief Superintendent Eric Hewitt, of Greater Manchester Police, said: “The people of Oldham were united in opposition to the National Front coming to Oldham to march and exploit the tense situation.”More than 500 people came into Oldham to cause trouble. These people were determined to wreck and destroy all parts of the community But the town of Oldham has remained relatively safe.”. Defence ministers are planning to move thousands of soldiers to the North and Midlands in an attempt to boost recruitment and cash in on the property boom in the South. Defence ministers are planning to move thousands of soldiers to the North and Midlands in an attempt to boost recruitment and cash in on the property boom in the South.
They believe that they will persuade more people to sign- up ­ and remain in the forces ­ by building living-quarters near large industrial cities such as Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow and Birmingham, which have traditionally supplied most recruits. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) will also be able to take advantage of soaring house prices in the over-heated South-east, by selling surplus property.At the moment, the majority of soldiers are housed in the South and East Anglia, with large concentrations in Salisbury, Aldershot and Colchester.

The only large barracks in the north of England are in Catterick, North Yorkshire. The MoD has begun a wide-ranging review of military accommodation in all three services, which is due to report in the autumn. It also needs to upgrade, or create, housing for about 30,000 servicemen and women over the next 10 to 15 years.The review is expected to recommend a substantial switch from south to north, with the result that barracks in the home counties would be slimmed down. A senior MoD source said: “There is a disparity between where we get people from and where they end up living.