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Cleveland Police called the violence "staggering", with 43 people arrested after an event that started at the town's cenotaph.

The youths were "angry" after seeing a man remove Palestinian flags from the cenotaph on social media, the CPS said.

Twelve people were killed after a bomb exploded at the town's cenotaph on 8 November 1987, during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony.

Ms Rogers said the knitted cenotaph and soldier are open to anyone to view at the reception building of the retirement village.

Police community support officers are now guarding the cenotaph on the Esplanade, Rochdale, after the vandalism.