Fragments Chapter 10 Page 9

Steve switches it off and picks up his iPad, taps the URL search bar and navigates to the Sky News Website.

The video player buffers the feed quickly and it begins to play mid-sentence.

A very concerned man and woman sit behind a news desk and read a similar report to the story on the radio.

…a day of carnage in central London, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle and Glasgow which seems to have spread to other areas faster than authorities can respond and contains a lot of the hallmarks from similar riots in 2011. Unlike that occasion however there doesn’t appear to be any use of the Blackberry mobile phone network to coordinate these horrendous acts of violence.

The rioters have