After the killings and the riots, kind gestures from the community show their solidarity in grief and emphatic rejection of violence
Mike Ainscough woke up on Tuesday morning to find a bunch of flowers leaning against the garden gate of his home in Southport.
“I saw it and I thought ‘It should be in water’, so I went to get a bucket,” the 82-year-old said. Soon there would be hundreds of bunches arrayed alongside his garden wall, with cuddly toys, sparkly balloons and handwritten messages to the children killed and injured at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.