A chair thrown by demonstrators has hit an officer on the head in Liverpool, reports the PA news agency.
Bricks, bottles and a flare were also thrown at officers as they lined the road on The Strand.
A Sunderland priest said yobs tried to smash a gravestone to act as missiles during a night of violence in the city.
The Reverend Jacqui Tyson called it an "act of sacrilege" and "remarkably lacking in common sense".
She said: "They were trying to break up one of the graves in the minster.
Hull, protesters gathered outside a hotel which has been used to house asylum seekers. We’ve seen the crowd throwing concrete bricks and smashing windows with glass bottles, shouting ‘get them out’.”
The man who shared indecent images of children with the former BBC presenter Huw Edwards is a 25-year-old fellow Welshman who was given a 12-month suspended jail term earlier this year.
Alex Williams, from Merthyr Tydfil, was sentenced in March at Merthyr Tydfil crown court after pleading...
The court heard that Edwards had been involved in an online chat with an adult male on WhatsApp between December 2020 and August 2021 who sent him 377 sexual images, including 41 indecent images of children, of which seven were category A (the worst), 12 category B and 22 category C.
"A number of officers have been injured in the violent riot that has broken out in Southport this evening, Merseyside Police has said.
Cars have been set alight and a shop has been looted as well, the force said."
Not just targeting the police, then.
Tommy Robinson’s right hand man, Danny Tommo, real name Daniel Thomas, posted a hate-filled video on You Tube on Monday night, calling for riots in British cities if the 17-year-old assailant in the Southport stabbings turns out to be a migrant.
In a video entitled ‘Get ready. We’re making...