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She lived in Toxteth rhymes with death and it was black and funny in all the right places.
The Guardian World News Deborah Orr 2011
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She lived in Toxteth rhymes with death and it was black and funny in all the right places.
The Guardian World News Deborah Orr 2011
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I live in inner city Liverpool namely Toxteth so I am more than aware of "reality" "getting pissed & starting fights" don't sound any different to any sqauddie down the "shot" or in Collie.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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A large proportion are in wards such as Toxteth, where Paul Brant, the deputy leader of Liverpool city council, fears dole queues can only swell, and social problems get worse.
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Heseltine, during his two-week visit to Liverpool in the immediate aftermath of the Toxteth riots, had seen the problem for what it was.
National Archives reveals historic parallels between 2011 and 1981 riots 2011
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Michael Heseltine, the environment secretary in 1981, visits Merseyside after the Toxteth riots.
National Archives reveals historic parallels between 2011 and 1981 riots 2011
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Around that time, the crowds in Toxteth, on the fringe of Liverpool city centre, were at the height of running battles with police.
A fire lit in Tottenham that burned Manchester: the rioters' story 2011
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Toxteth, Liverpool, where rioting prompted ministers to consider a 'managed decline' during which residents would be encourage to more elsewhere.
Thatcher government toyed with evacuating Liverpool after 1981 riots 2011
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Only last week the release of government papers under the 30-year rule revealed that in 1981, in the wake of the Toxteth riots, the chancellor of the exchequer, Sir Geoffrey Howe, suggested to Margaret Thatcher and their cabinet colleagues that the troubled city was a hopeless case and should be allowed to fall into a state of "managed decline".
Kenny Dalglish's touch deserts him in case of misplaced solidarity | Richard Williams 2012
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In the past couple of days, the media have been full of stories about how Margaret Thatcher was secretly advised to abandon my home city of Liverpool to a fate of "managed decline" following the 1981 Toxteth riots.
How all politicians have made a mess of my beloved Merseyside | Alexei Sayle 2012
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