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Two teenagers who were killed in a crash in Cardiff which was followed by a riot have been named by a close relative of one of the boys.
Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and 15-year-old Harvey Evans, were riding an electric bike when they were involved in a collision on Monday night.
Disorder broke out after the crash on Snowden Road in the Ely area of the city, with fireworks and other missiles thrown at a line of police officers with riot shields who were blocking one end of the street.
A helicopter hovered overhead during the riot as at least two cars were set alight.
Harvey's godmother Jenny Sampson, who confirmed the identities of the two boys to Sky News, said the disorder broke out because police wouldn't let their parents get close to the crash scene.
She said: "Basically we were all at the scene, the police were just having none of it, they wouldn't let the mums, the dads come up and see their own kids laying on the floor.
"They wouldn't let [the parents] do nothing, it was disgusting how they treated them, and they made them walk home and give them the news in the house, didn't give them any sort of news at the scene, we were there for hours waiting and waiting and they still wouldn't let them through to see if their son was OK."
Image:The aftermath of the crash in Cardiff
Asked what caused the rioting, Ms Sampson said: "The police, how bad the police treated everybody, you can't treat families like that... With two young kids laying on the floor, and their own family couldn't even get to them, they couldn't even see their own son's last breaths, it's wrong and it's disgusting."
She added: "They were telling everybody to go away and you can't do that... We were all standing there for about two to three hours before anyone had any information.
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"It was really, really bad."
Ms Sampson said she is still unclear what caused the crash but described Harvey as an "amazing and bubbly guy" who was "always happy, always on the go".
"He liked bikes, he liked scooters... Both of them, that was just their life of liking stuff like that."
South Wales Police said it was investigating the "serious road traffic collision and scenes of violent disorder" which broke out in the residential area.
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One person was attacked because rioters thought they were an undercover officer, according to a senior officer at the scene.
Police, including mounted officers on horseback, were seen outside Ely police station in the early hours of Tuesday after suggestions it could be targeted.
Shortly before 3am, rioters moved down Highmead Road in Ely, followed by police officers trying to disperse them.
The rioters continued to throw missiles and set cars alight.
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Sky's Dan Whitehead reports from the area
Rubbish and wheelie bins were set alight by rioters as they were moved through the streets by armoured police.
Jane Palmer, owner of a burnt out Ford Focus on Highmead Road, said she and her family had watched from their window as rioters set fire to her car.
Ms Palmer said: "I'm disabled, so now I'm trapped without my car.
"Why are they doing this? It's just silly now."
The family had tried to stop the fire using water from their garden hose.
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Shocked residents on Cardiff riot
Connor, who also lives in Highmead Road, said: "It has been a mad night.
"This is not the norm around here but people are pretty anti-police and that's reflected on both sides, not that that's my opinion.
"Although we've been afflicted by this riot, I still understand it. When people have enough, this is what happens."
Canon Jan Gould, the vicar at a local church in Ely told Sky News that the loss of the two young boys is "awful".
"It's a tragedy, you can't imagine what those families are feeling today," she said.
"Just to lose young people in that way is awful."
Canon Gould has lived in the area for 17 years and said scenes of riots in the hours after the collision were "absolutely shocking".
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Assistant Chief Constable Mark Travis said: "We received a large number of calls from residents who were understandably frightened by the actions of this large group who were intent on causing crime and disorder.
"The level of violence towards emergency services and the damage to property and vehicles was totally unacceptable.
"Our focus now is to fully investigate the circumstances of the collision and the appalling scenes that followed.
"Arrests have already been made in connection with the disorder and more will follow. We shall be maintaining an enhanced police presence throughout the week and into the weekend."
Image:Police in riot gear at the scene of the disorder
Canon Jan Gould, the vicar at a local church in Ely told Sky News that the loss of the two young boys is "awful".
"It's a tragedy, you can't imagine what those families are feeling today," she said.
"Just to lose young people in that way is awful."
Canon Gould has lived in the area for 17 years and said scenes of riots in the hours after the collision were "absolutely shocking".
Meanwhile, Cardiff Council's leader called for calm after the disorder and said it is "really important" a full investigation into the crash can take place.
Councillor Huw Thomas said: "For that to happen we need calm. Any continuation of last night's trouble will only hamper any investigation.
"It's important we all come together, and work together now, to find out exactly what happened. I urge everyone to do all they can to calm the situation."
At 8.21pm, South Wales Police said it had a "large number of officers working to manage the collision, but also to de-escalate ongoing disorder at the scene".
At 1.10am, they said a "large police presence" remained in the area, confirming that vehicles had been set on fire and people had been arrested.
Two people are understood to have died in an incident which led to widespread disorder near the scene of a crash in Cardiff.
South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael told BBC Radio Wales he understood the two who had died were teenagers.
Cars were set alight and objects thrown at police near the scene of the crash in Ely.
The events that led to the disorder remain unclear.
Riot police with dogs joined emergency services on Snowden Road on Monday evening after 100-150 people gathered.
Some of those gathered wore balaclavas while others were seen breaking up paving slabs to hurl at officers.
Videos on social media also showed fireworks being thrown at police.
Police said arrests had been made but did not give a figure.
South Wales Police said that, shortly after 18:00 BST, officers responded to a report of a "serious road traffic collision" on Snowden Road.
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Following speculation on social media that police had been involved in the original incident, the force said the crash "had already occurred when officers arrived".
Two police cars were damaged in the disorder, with pictures showing one with its windscreen broken and its wing mirrors hanging off.
A member of the public was also attacked because some of those gathered thought they were an undercover police officer, according to one of the senior officers at the scene.
At least two parked cars were set alight, one of them after being tipped onto its roof.
On Tuesday morning, paving stones and pipes could be seen strewn across the street.
Other parked cars had had windows smashed, while a child's car seat lay in ruins on the road.
Snowden Road has been closed between Wilson Road and Jackson Road and drivers have been asked to avoid the area.
John Urquhart, who lives in Ely, witnessed the incident escalate from the start of the evening.
He said the vast majority of people were in the street because they "wanted to know what would happen next", and added that there was "a very small number of people actually doing any sort of violence."
Mr Urquhart said he was very "counter-violence" and offered first aid to people during the evening.
In a tweet at 01:10 BST, police said they were "continuing to monitor and respond" to the situation and that a "large police presence remains in the area".
As the disorder continued into the early hours of the morning, those gathered moved down nearby Highmead Road as police attempted to disperse them.
Police, including officers on horseback, were seen outside Ely police station amid suggestions that it could be targeted.
The National Police Air Service also said it had assisted with the incident.
'Crossed a line'
Jane Palmer said she and her family watched from a window as people outside set fire to her car.
"I'm disabled so now I'm trapped without my car," she said.
"Why are they doing this? It's just silly now."
Another resident, who did not want to be named, said those behind the violence were "kids", and that it had "crossed a line" and "needs to stop".
In an earlier post, police urged "anyone involved [in the disorder] to leave the scene immediately" and asked local residents to "stay away while the matter is brought to a safe conclusion".
"We need to ensure that this evening's collision is effectively investigated," they said.
They also asked local residents to remain indoors.
Cardiff Bus said earlier that a service it runs through the area had been re-routed and would remain so for the rest of the evening.
The search of a reservoir by police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann will begin this morning.
Officers will begin working within hours at the Arade dam, which is located about 31 miles (50km) from where the British toddler went missing in Praia da Luz in the Algarve, 16 years ago.
British police will also be present during the search, according to Portuguese media reports.
The investigation of the site reportedly comes at the request of German police, who announced in June 2020 that they believed Madeleine was dead and that suspect Christian B was likely responsible.
It is claimed the convicted child abuser and drug dealer used to visit the reservoir.
Christian B is currently in prison for raping a 72-year-old woman in the same area of the Algarve region from where Madeleine went missing, but has not been charged with any crime related to the disappearance.
He has always denied any involvement.
Image: The Arade dam in Portugal
The waterway was previously searched in 2008 after Portuguese lawyer Marcos Aragao Correia paid for specialist divers to check the site.
He claimed to have been tipped off by criminal contacts that Madeleine's body was in the reservoir, but nothing was found.
A search was also carried out in 2014 of scrubland near where she vanished, after British police were given permission to investigate by Portuguese authorities.
He had been accused of three offences of aggravated rape and two offences of sexual abuse of children in Portugal between December 2000 and June 2017.
However, the court in Braunschweig ruled it had no jurisdiction in the case.
Lawyer Friedrich Fulscher said the decision meant court authorities could not have jurisdiction over any potential case about Madeleineeither. The court did not comment on his claim.
Image:A police car at the Arade dam on Monday
Madeleine was three years old when she went missing in 2007 during a holiday with her family.
Sir Keir Starmer is to propose introducing new NHS targets on cutting deaths in England from heart disease, strokes and suicide.
A Labour government would aim to reduce deaths from heart disease and strokes by a quarter over 10 years and see suicide figures decline within five.
The Labour leader is giving a speech on the party's NHS policy later.
The Tories accused Labour of seeking to frustrate its own reforms by repeatedly voting against them.
Labour's new targets for the health service will be part of a wider package of reforms if it is elected, Sir Keir will say, with a focus on modernisation, hitting existing cancer targets, and cutting waiting lists.
The NHS Confederation says the health service in England is facing a £6-7bn funding gap for 2023/24.
When asked how much money Labour would need to reform the NHS, Sir Keir told the BBC his party would fund an increase in health workers by ending certain tax breaks, including the non-dom status.
In terms of the overall NHS budget, Sir Keir said Labour would set out its funding plans ahead of the next general election. "But I'm keen to emphasise, it's change and reform, not just money," Sir Keir said.
Sir Keir also said Labour would ban commercials for junk and sugary food before 21:00, as well as adverts for vaping products.
"The government has toyed with this and has backed off. I think this is the wrong thing as we have to protect the health of our young people and that requires us to put in place pretty solid bans on advertising to children and that's what we would be prepared to do," he said.
He is expected to call for three "big shifts" in approach for the NHS, promoting digital methods, community care and preventative measures.
He will say it is "not serious" to argue the health service's problems can be solved with extra funding, and call for "serious, deep, long-term changes".
More than 5,500 deaths were registered as suicides in England and Wales in 2021, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) - around three quarters of which were men. Women under the age of 24 have seen the largest increase of any group since data started being collected in 1981, an ONS study found in 2022.
Sir Keir is expected to tell an audience in the east of England that suicide rates among young people "should haunt us", adding: "Our mission must be and will be: to get it down."
The party also wants existing NHS targets to be tackled - for example the aim for 85% of cancer patients to start treatment within 62 days of an urgent GP referral. This has not been achieved since 2015.
Sir Keir said his party would aim to meet existing targets on hospital treatment within the first term of a Labour government, but admitted the reforms "will take a bit longer".
Tackling waiting times, more care in the community and greater use of technology are proposals that have been raised by Labour, Conservatives and the Lib Dems over the last decade or so.
A Conservative Party source said cutting waiting times is one of the government's top five priorities, and that there had already been major progress on reducing very long waits.
They accused Labour of voting "against Conservative plans for more doctors" and said it was prioritising the hiring of thousands more NHS managers.
"If Labour were serious about NHS reform they would have taken action where they are in power in Wales where waiting lists are higher," they added.
Sir Keir's speech on Monday will be his third on Labour's five "missions" for government if it wins power, the areas which are likely to form the backbone of the party's manifesto at the next general election.
It came after Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, highlighted the party's aim to give people a greater choice over where they receive hospital treatment.
He told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that Labour's plan for regional waiting lists would give patients more flexibility to receive care elsewhere if queues are shorter in another area.
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Good morning. Rishi Sunak is back from Japan, and this morning he is due to meet Sir Laurie Magnus, his ethics adviser, to discuss whether Magnus should launch an inquiry into claims that Suella Braverman, the home secretary, broke the ministerial code when she asked officials about arranging a private speed awareness course after she was caught speeding. These courses are meant to be group events, but Braverman did not want a bunch of strangers to know she was taking part.
Given the controversy this story has aroused, it will be surprising if Sunak does not order an inquiry. Here is Pippa Crerar’s overnight story.
On the BBC’s Westminster Hour last night Philip Rycroft, a former permanent secretary at the Brexit department, said he thought Braverman had broken the ministerial code. He told the programme:
This, on the face of it, I think, is a breach of the ministerial code. Obviously, there’s still investigations to be done and so on but the code is very clear. Ministers must ensure that no conflict arises or appears to arise between their public duties and their private interests.
Even asking a question of a civil servant as to how she might go on one of these courses puts them in an impossible position. And for somebody, you know, who wakes up in the morning and sees a future prime minister, this is a real lapse of judgment.
And this morning Dave Penman, the general secretary of the FDA, the union that represents senior civil servants, said he thought Braverman has abused her position. He told Sky News:
Civil servants are publicly funded. They’re paid for by you and me. They’re not there to support the personal interests of a minister. They don’t do their shopping, they don’t look after their children and they don’t sort out their speeding fine.
In truth, as breaches of the ministerial code go, this seems to be at the mild end of what might count, and if this story were about a more anonymous member of the cabinet (Mel Stride, Gillian Keegan?), it would be attracting far less attention.
But Braverman is not an anonymous minister, which is why this issue is a problem for Sunak. She has already had to resign once for breaching the ministerial code, for sending an official document from her personal email to a fellow MP. She has set herself up as the de facto leader of a Tory faction pushing for a much harder stance on legal and illegal immigration, to the extent that she sometimes gives the impression that she wants to be sacked. But this has also given her a following, and her allies are briefing the media that she is the victim of a smear campaign.
This morning Keir Starmer said that if Braverman has broken the ministerial code, she should resign. Peter Walker has the story here.
“The ministerial code is pretty clear that if you break it, you’re supposed to go,” Starmer said.
In fact, Starmer is wrong about that. The code used to operate on that basis, but guidance from No 10 issued last year says that if a minister has broken the code, in some circumstances a public apology would be the appropriate sanction. It says:
As both Lord Geidt and the Committee on Standards in Public Life have recommended last year, it is disproportionate to expect that any breach, however minor, should lead automatically to resignation or dismissal. The sanction which the prime minister may decide to issue in a given case is for the prime minister to determine, but could include requiring some form of public apology, remedial action or removal of ministerial salary for a period. The ministerial code has been updated to reflect this.
2.30pm: Suella Braverman, the home secretary, takes questions in the Commons.
After 3.30pm:Rishi Sunak is expected to make a Commons statement on the G7 summit.
After 4.30pm: MPs debate Labour amendments to the strikes (minimum service levels) bill.
5pm: James Cleverly, the foreign secretary, gives a speech in Chile.
If you want to contact me, do try the “send us a message” feature. You’ll see it just below the byline – on the left of the screen, if you are reading on a PC or a laptop. (It is not available on the app yet.) This is for people who want to message me directly. I find it very useful when people message to point out errors (even typos – no mistake is too small to correct). Often I find your questions very interesting too. I can’t promise to reply to them all, but I will try to reply to as many as I can, either in the comments below the line, privately (if you leave an email address and that seems more appropriate), or in the main blog, if I think it is a topic of wide interest.
The official statistics watchdog has reprimanded the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, after he claimed public debt levels would fall in the coming years, when in fact they are simply forecast to rise less steeply than previously expected. Peter Walker has the story.
Keir Starmer will give a speech this morning giving details of Labour’s “mission” on health. Health is one of the five “missions” – overall strategic aims – he has set for a Labour government, but each mission comes with its own set of targets (sub-missions?), and, as Matthew Weaver and Pippa Crerar report, the health one will include reducing deaths from suicide.
Starmer gave more details of his thinking on health in an interview round this morning. Here are some of the points he made.
Starmer claimed the NHS was “always better funded under Labour”. The overnight briefing from Labour about his speech suggests that he is not going to promise extra money for the NHS in what he announces this morning. But when asked about funding, he told the Today programme:
Money is part of the answer and the NHS is always better funded under Labour.
So far as the money is concerned, firstly, wherever we’ve made a specific commitment we’re setting out in terms today how we’ll pay for that.
I ran our public service for five years, I do know that if you put more money in the top you do get a better outcome, so money is, of course, part of the answer, but we’ve also got to change and reform.
If we go down the path of prevention, that actually will not only be a lot better for people’s lives and their health, but also in the long run actually cost a lot less.
We don’t want to go down the road of making food more expensive in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, which is why today we’ll focus on advertising rather than increasing the cost to food, because I think for many families who are already struggling the idea that food prices would go up again is something which simply wouldn’t be tolerable from their point of view.
But he said his “very strong view” was that sugary food, and vaping, should not be advertised to children. He said:
In the speech I’m going to deal with vaping and junk food and sugary foods, which should not be advertised to children in my very strong view. It’s so bad for their health, so bad for the NHS.
Good morning. Rishi Sunak is back from Japan, and this morning he is due to meet Sir Laurie Magnus, his ethics adviser, to discuss whether Magnus should launch an inquiry into claims that Suella Braverman, the home secretary, broke the ministerial code when she asked officials about arranging a private speed awareness course after she was caught speeding. These courses are meant to be group events, but Braverman did not want a bunch of strangers to know she was taking part.
Given the controversy this story has aroused, it will be surprising if Sunak does not order an inquiry. Here is Pippa Crerar’s overnight story.
On the BBC’s Westminster Hour last night Philip Rycroft, a former permanent secretary at the Brexit department, said he thought Braverman had broken the ministerial code. He told the programme:
This, on the face of it, I think, is a breach of the ministerial code. Obviously, there’s still investigations to be done and so on but the code is very clear. Ministers must ensure that no conflict arises or appears to arise between their public duties and their private interests.
Even asking a question of a civil servant as to how she might go on one of these courses puts them in an impossible position. And for somebody, you know, who wakes up in the morning and sees a future prime minister, this is a real lapse of judgment.
And this morning Dave Penman, the general secretary of the FDA, the union that represents senior civil servants, said he thought Braverman has abused her position. He told Sky News:
Civil servants are publicly funded. They’re paid for by you and me. They’re not there to support the personal interests of a minister. They don’t do their shopping, they don’t look after their children and they don’t sort out their speeding fine.
In truth, as breaches of the ministerial code go, this seems to be at the mild end of what might count, and if this story were about a more anonymous member of the cabinet (Mel Stride, Gillian Keegan?), it would be attracting far less attention.
But Braverman is not an anonymous minister, which is why this issue is a problem for Sunak. She has already had to resign once for breaching the ministerial code, for sending an official document from her personal email to a fellow MP. She has set herself up as the de facto leader of a Tory faction pushing for a much harder stance on legal and illegal immigration, to the extent that she sometimes gives the impression that she wants to be sacked. But this has also given her a following, and her allies are briefing the media that she is the victim of a smear campaign.
This morning Keir Starmer said that if Braverman has broken the ministerial code, she should resign. Peter Walker has the story here.
“The ministerial code is pretty clear that if you break it, you’re supposed to go,” Starmer said.
In fact, Starmer is wrong about that. The code used to operate on that basis, but guidance from No 10 issued last year says that if a minister has broken the code, in some circumstances a public apology would be the appropriate sanction. It says:
As both Lord Geidt and the Committee on Standards in Public Life have recommended last year, it is disproportionate to expect that any breach, however minor, should lead automatically to resignation or dismissal. The sanction which the prime minister may decide to issue in a given case is for the prime minister to determine, but could include requiring some form of public apology, remedial action or removal of ministerial salary for a period. The ministerial code has been updated to reflect this.
2.30pm: Suella Braverman, the home secretary, takes questions in the Commons.
After 3.30pm:Rishi Sunak is expected to make a Commons statement on the G7 summit.
After 4.30pm: MPs debate Labour amendments to the strikes (minimum service levels) bill.
5pm: James Cleverly, the foreign secretary, gives a speech in Chile.
If you want to contact me, do try the “send us a message” feature. You’ll see it just below the byline – on the left of the screen, if you are reading on a PC or a laptop. (It is not available on the app yet.) This is for people who want to message me directly. I find it very useful when people message to point out errors (even typos – no mistake is too small to correct). Often I find your questions very interesting too. I can’t promise to reply to them all, but I will try to reply to as many as I can, either in the comments below the line, privately (if you leave an email address and that seems more appropriate), or in the main blog, if I think it is a topic of wide interest.
Labour's shadow chancellor has been accused of hypocrisy for flying business class to New York.
Rachel Reeves tweeted a picture of her British Airways ticket on Sunday, before swiftly deleting it.
But eagle-eyed social media users had already noticed that her seat number was visible on the ticket, revealing she was in seat 3K, which is in BA's Club World business class suite, costing around £4,000.
Tory MPs have now accused the Labour frontbencher of trying to "pull the wool over people's eyes".
'One rule for them'
Mark Jenkinson, the Conservative MP for Workington, told The Telegraph: "Imagine the uproar from the Labour party, not only if a party donor had paid to upgrade a minister’s travel to business class, but if said minister had then tried to pull the wool over people’s eyes.
"As always for Labour, it’s one rule for them and one for everybody else."
Rachel Reeves swiftly deleted her tweet after it showed her seat number
Brendan Clarke-Smith, the Tory MP for Bassetlaw, accused Labour of "hypocrisy", days after Left-wing activists attacked him on social media for suggesting that shoppers buy supermarket-branded baked beans if Heinz versions were rising in price too sharply.
He told The Telegraph: "Start spreading the news. When it comes to luxury travel, with Labour they still expect to be top of the list - it’s a case of do as I say, not as I do.
"Whilst they claim they want to make a brand new start of it, when it comes down to it, to be frank, they are still the same old hypocrites they’ve always been."
'Luxury' experience
British Airways' business class cabin is branded as a "luxury" experience, including a private lounge at the airport, a spacious seat and bed, as well as a "delicious" three-course meal.
It is understood that Ms Reeves flew on a Boeing 777-236 British Airways plane on Sunday afternoon from London to New York.
In January, Angela Rayner, Labour's deputy leader, took aim at Rishi Sunak for "jetting around the country on taxpayers' money like an A-list celeb" after he used a French-made RAF jet for a 41-minute trip from London to Blackpool.
Last month, Ms Rayner also denounced ministers for living a "five-star luxury lifestyle" while "families up and down the country are sick with anxiety about whether their pay cheque will cover the weekly shop", after Government spending revealed five-star hotel stays.
"A Labour government will get tough on waste," she said.
