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Evening Standard
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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

London ambulance staff told 'leave scene and end calls' amid increase in racist abuse

London Ambulance Service has said frontline staff facing racist abuse can end phone calls and leave the scene, after a reported an increase in such incidents.

Far-right violence has broken out across UK towns and cities in the wake of a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport last Monday, which left three young girls dead.

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