Clean-up

Users of Twitter and Facebook are using the social networking sites, which police said were also utilised by the rioters to organise their looting and civil disobedience, to arrange mass street clean-up operations across London and in other cities affected, including Bristol.

An account on Twitter called @riotcleanup attracted more than 18,000 followers in a matter of hours today and was helping people to co-ordinate their efforts. Others were using #riotscleanup to arrange to meet up and help clear areas around their homes.

Those using Twitter to co-ordinate clean-up efforts are calling themselves the “Riot Wombles”.