Monthly Archives: August 2011

CLA Game Fair Report – GunMakers Row

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The Blenheim CLA was generally judged to be a success by all who attended I think. I got there a bit late but went to an excellent dinner party at William Evans with Charlie Jacoby and his banjo in attendance. It was, as ever, great fun and wonderfully organised by Sally et al.. I did not do the cocktail party circuit this year because I missed most of them on Friday. I am not really a social animal in that way anymore (boring old bugger). If someone is offering bubbles, however, I will occasionally make an exception! [There was one year when just about everyone in Gunmakers Row offered me a drink of some kind and I never did make it to the end – I woke up the next morning on a collapsed papering table looking at someone’s canvas ceiling – never again.]

So, while others were having – “partying the night away” – I was primarily interested in catching up with old chums and keeping an eye out for what was genuinely new. First, though, I want to thank my mucker Mark Curtis of Pigeon Mania for being an all-round nice guy and for putting up with me camping on his stand yet again (damn this business of getting on site by 7.30 now – hell, one has to get up early). Mark’s business, meanwhile, is deservedly going from strength to strength – pigeon magnets at just over 50 quid, flappers, some fantastic, well-priced, rechargeable hand lamps for foxing and similar. He has got his act together and sold a huge amount of kit.

I also want to thank Mike Ladd who offered space for my gunfitting service but which I did not take up this year (but which I may take to the Midland and/or Bisley Live). As well as the usual massive stock, Mike had his new range of Turkish made true sidelock over and unders on stand which look good and cost under 4K. He also had some presentable Turkish boxlocks – these guns get better and better although there are still a few details to work on. Mike also had a beautiful handling Abbiatico and Salvinelli 20bore over and under which caught my eye. It had a titanium action which gave it a similar magic quality to the Kemen titaniums.

Boxall and Edmiston launched their sidelock gun which looks great for 25K or thereabouts. Peter Boxall, their engineering genius, is ex Holland & Holland and Jaguar, and is a perfectionist. His firm’s guns are extremely well made and now offer exceptional value whether boxlock, side-plated or true sidelock. I am working on a new gun project with this company and details of it will be announced in due course. It just might have another barrel configuration and it will be English made.

Anglo-Italian Arms (formerly Guerini UK) had their new Fabarm range on stand. But, the gun that really excited me – and upon which there will be a full report somewhere very soon – was the round action 32” 20 bore over and under – the first specimen of which was on display. It felt spendid. I shoot 32” Maxums at the moment and this felt as good as better.

Holland & Holland had their centenary take-down .375. It was a wonderful gun, I have always wanted a Holland bolt rifle, but I would make do with a straight .375. It would genuinely be a gun that one could do just about everything with. It is no secret that I have a lot of respect for this grand old firm and the shooting qualities of its products. I also managed to have a fascinating discussion with David Little of Kynoch about why some old H&H .375s seem so soft in recoil in spite of their light weight – David believes it is because of two things – their slender, steeply angled, stock shapes and the progressive lead into the rifling. The former is an interesting point because I usually feel it has a negative effect in shotguns – David’s opinion is that it may work on a rifle because the time pressure curve is different. He also favours light long barrels.

Alan Rhone had a very interesting new straight-pull rifle from Finland – the Lynx. It felt really solid. It appears extremely well engineered too and the cycling is very quick. The Lynx is available in various forms including a laminate model (my favourite), standard hunter, and a deluxe model with all the bells and whistles of special engraving and gold inlays. Price from about 4K. Alan also has some excellent new QD mounts on offer made by a firm called Ziegler. These offer repeatable zero “again and again.” They’re neat, extremely well designed and available for a wide variety of guns. I am sure he is destined to do well with them, and I am having some fitted to my Sako 85 in .375 H&H.

Anderson Wheeler of Mayfair impressed me first because they are a young company with lots of ideas and energy, but also because they have created such an impressive product line so quickly. They make a good 20 bore side by side based on an AyA action, they have an over and under built on an Italian action, but these guns have a lot of London finish in them. A&W also offer the normal bespoke big bore double rifles (they had a .470 which was a beauty) and bolt guns as well as London made shotguns. Just to see two tables crammed with so many new made rifles and shotguns shows how much effort they have put it.

I had fun seeing Ian Tomlin of Traditional English Gun Cases and bought a beautiful 250 cartridge magazine from him. Ian has a great range of cartridge bags too. Bill Blacker was not far away, being his normal inimitable self. And, I also enjoyed stopping in on Croots who seem to be going from strength to strength with their bags and gun-slips too. They made a canvas safari bag for me last year which has proved to be invaluable – like the brilliant Barbour canvas shoulder bag (and they make something similar too).

Browning did not have a great deal of new product this year (2012 is rumoured to be their big launch year). One exception, though, was the wonderful, well priced, 525 Sporter (which I choose to call a MK2 because of its radically changed handling qualities thanks to the new lightened, Investor Plus back-bored, barrels). It might well be my gun of the year. I also really like the Winchester ‘Red Performance’ semi-auto. This is simply one of the best handling guns that I have ever shot – soft in recoil, relatively light in weight, and natural pointing.

Beretta have their new Silver Pigeon 1 which is Opti-bored and another performer as noted on this site recently. And, at the CLA, they launched a new small bore range of Silver Pigeon 1s, a new Beretta Jubilee, a Help for Heroes EELL (at £5,995 with a £100 going to this magnificent charity), and no less than 2 new A400 semis. These included the Action which is available with a Gun Pod ‘on board computer’ which notes the number of cartridges fired, their power and temperature, and, a blue actioned Excel (also available with the Gun Pod gizmo not mention Kick-Off recoil reduction). There is a Silver Pigeon 1 with game scene engraving as well, and, a new version of the Benelli Vinci.

ASI now have a round bar boxlock on offer – Edward King has a fondeness for better quality boxlocks – and, a deluxe model of the popular No.2. There are also a couple of new Rizzini Artimis sideplated guns. These are available in proportionately scaled 12, 16, 20, 28 and .410 actions, all with selective single trigger and multichokes as standard. Edgar Brothers had lots of new stuff. I saw the Remy Versalite shotgun for the first time and the new Zoli Black Magic rifle. Viking Arms have the Ruger Gunsite Scout rifle in .308 with a detachable box mag and various extras except the flash hider (which current US law does not allow the export of in our all too mixed up world).

What have I forgotten? The new Powell Marquis – a sub 3K, hand engraved, Spanish sidelock made by Arrieta (though my favourite in their line is the Lindhope high bird gun coming in over £7,000 mark which is based on an old pigeon gun). There is also their ‘Juvenis’ sidelock for (better off) young shots. E.J.Churcill have an extensive new line of over and unders inlcluding some finished in France, and, a 32” Churchill badged Perazzi. Finally, my thanks to Fiona Eastman for getting my Press Passes through in the nick of time. Without her effort, I would not have got to Blenheim at all.

Have Fun On The Cheap

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In this economical climate you would be foolish to pay full price for anything. However, it can be hard to find inexpensive stuff to do now that the recession has kicked in. The answer is to have fun on the cheap. There is still fun to be had, and relatively cheaply if you look around. Frost has done the searching for you and has come up with a number of things to do without breaking your budget.

You can buy Peter Pan Tickets. I have seen it and it is an amazing experience. If you are a sports fan you can get San Diego Chargers Tickets at a reasonable price. There are few things more fun than a night of American football.

If sport is not your thing, music fans can get Celine Dion Tickets
Celine is quite the performer and that will be an experience you will never forget. If Celine is not your cup of tea you can get Rascal Flatts Tickets

If you are feeling more cultured then you can get Trans-Siberian Orchestra Tickets cheaply.

Everyone deserves to have experiences they will never forget, so just buy them at a price you can afford. Have fun!

Sophie Mitchell Summer Diet Recipe: Wednesday

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Frost is doing a recipe everyday for Sophie Mitchell’s Tweet yourself thin summer diet. Happy cooking.

WEDNESDAY

Smoked salmon and avocado rye toasts
Prep time 5 minutes
Cooking time 5 minutes
Serves 4
4 slices of rye bread
2 avocadoes
4/8 slices of salmon
1 lemon
Black pepper
1. Toast the bread and then top with the slices of avocado and smoked
salmon.
2. Finish off with a squeeze of lemon and black pepper

Beetroot, goats cheese and mint Quesadillas
Serves 4
Prep time 10 minutes
Cooking time 20 minutes
200g cooked chicken breast (optional for meat eaters)
4 spring onions
200g goat’s cheese
150g cooked beetroot
1 tablespoon chopped fresh mint
4 soft tortillas (I love the wholemeal ones or seeded kind)
250g salad leaves (rocket is great here)
Lemon juice
1 tsp olive oil
1. Shred the chicken and finely slice the spring onions and beetroot. Lay a tortilla flat on a board or
clean surface, and spread half of each tortilla with some of the goat’s cheese (divide between the
four)
2. Then sprinkle with mint and spring onions, and lay on the sliced beetroot, chicken and fold over.
3. Heat a frying pan up to a medium heat and lay a tortilla in the pan, with no oil. Cook slowly until
it’s golden and crisp, and then flip over. Repeat with all of the tortillas, and keep warm in the oven if
wanted.
4. To serve cut the Quesadilla in half, dress the rocket with the lemon and oil and then plate.

King prawn and Asparagus rice
Serves 4
Prep time 10 minutes
Cooking time 20 minutes
400g cooked wild and basmati rice mix
1 tbsp olive oil
1 onion
3 cloves of garlic
300g cooked king prawns
1 bunch of asparagus, trimmed
25g butter
1 lemon
Sea salt and pepper
1. Cook the rice according to the instruction on the packet. As a rule I cook rice with one and half
times the liquid, covered until the water has evaporated, but wild rice can take longer (so therefore
needs more water) and can vary more.
2. When the rice is cooked, cool it. Bring a pan of water up to the boil and then blanch the asparagus
for 3 minutes, and refresh under cold water.
4. Dice the onion and mince the garlic, fry both off in the olive oil, you can get colour at this stage,
but do not burn. This should take about 8 minutes. Then add the prawns and the asparagus and cook
for 4 more minutes.
4. Add the butter, melt, then add the rice, cook until

Fate on the London Fringe

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‘As Fate Would Have It’, produced by LittleBerry Productions, is the debut play of up and coming playwright Phoebe Hunt. It follows the two possible lives of a couple, Damien and Grace, who agree to toss a coin to decide whether they stay together or break up. The story unfolds with episodic scenes following both strands of possibility. In one strand, the couple stay together, continuing the increasingly unhealthy habit of making decisions by the flip of the coin. In the other strand, they break up, setting Grace free, while Damien continues to allow the coin to decide his fate.

As Grace, Phoebe Hunt made the most of the challenging transitions between depression (when with Damien) and glee (when set free from his ever increasing evil clutches). Her bright-eyed smile allowed the audience some breathing room, giving us a break from the relentless tension, and the pathos of her alternate situation. Jamie Hutchins, playing Damien, gave a very specific performance, in both vocal quality and physicality. The way he tossed a coin to make a decision for the very first time, uncertain and tentative, said a lot about his journey when contrasted with his eventual habitual attachment to the ten pence piece. Dinarte Gouveia (Michael) delivered his frequent comic lines from the heart, without force, and Jamila Jennings-Grant (Agatha) gave the audience a voice of reason, with her powerful portrayal of the best friend a girl in a bad relationship could have.

The entire play was accompanied by the composition and live performance of Matt Gaydon on the guitar. Whilst the music added a lot to the moments of heightened emotion, I personally found it occasionally contrasted the feelings expressed by the actors, and needed more variation in melody. Saying that, it served an important purpose when signifying to the audience that we were now changing episode from one strand of reality to its alternate, and back.

The script is cleverly written, though sometimes merging style between naturalism and poeticism, occasionally making believable delivery difficult. Though I admired the unrushed scene changes upstage, the activity downstage could have been more engaging in order to distract us from the movement of furniture. Otherwise, Cat Robey’s direction encouraged high stakes, and a gradual build towards a thoroughly gripping climax.

“As Fate Would Have It’ plays at The Space, Isle of Dogs on the 10th and 11th August, and at The Lion and Unicorn on 14th and 15th August. It is definitely worth a watch, but if you can’t make it, keep an eye out for future productions by LittleBerry Productions.

Londoner's Life 18 – by Phil Ryan

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Londoners Life 18 – by Phil Ryan

Well it’s obvious what this column has to be about. And that’s the fact that the cycle lanes to the Olympics don’t actually go all the way to Stratford! No they just stop a few miles short. It’s a scandal. On another matter London is on fire I notice and full of charming young guys in scarves and masks nicking everything they can get their scummy little hands on when they’re not torching shops and people’s homes. Meanwhile the London Metropolitan Police who don’t actually have anyone in charge at the top currently have adopted a clever brand new approach called just watching it all – in case they upset the local kids. The same charming local kids or ‘feral gangs’ as they are better known who are currently re-enacting Grand Theft Auto on the streets of various London boroughs. Presumably later to play said game on their new stolen consoles only to find it’s not quite the same. I have a plan however. Nuns. Huge armies of them. It’s very difficult to be rude or violent towards a nun. I haven’t tried but I feel it innately. We should train up Nun riot squads.

On a completely unrelated matter it is Tourist surge time as the capital fills up with evermore eager visitors. They’ll certainly have some interesting typical tourist images to take home this visit. Burning Red buses, friendly bobbies in Riot Gear screaming, Scenes of fantastic free shopping opportunities (if you’re fast enough and handy with a torn up pole) and of course happy young London children hurling petrol bombs and bricks. But London is no stranger to the odd riot although we should be clear what’s happening now is just a bunch of criminals nicking things. I have heard the various pundits and usual suspects trotting out their theories on social deprivation. But it’s certainly a strange way to attack Government policy by hoisting a 50 plasma television out of a burning Dixons! And almost inevitably I see the usual London politicos and right on mouthpieces out blaming everything but the yoof. No it’s deprivation and police brutality that makes you nearly murder strangers, terrorize the elderly and steal phones, laptops and training shoes apparently. Who’d have guessed?

It is disturbing however to finally realise just how many gangs there are now and how organised they are. They have Facebook pages, tweets and text alerts. Very London. Very fashionable. Very depressing. But we’ll get over it. 60 years ago they bombed the place and that got sorted out. And my favourite political expression now “Lessons must be learned” will dominate every powerful mouth in London for the next few months. Of course the other expression intimating that London tax payers will have to “unfortunately pick up the tab” will be said but very very quietly.

So I’ve been out and about doing my best to avoid the main thoroughfares as I always do in the tourist season but I did stop in St Christopher’s Place for tea and a crepe a few nights back which cost slightly more than having my buttocks dusted with Platinum and of course the obligatory ‘Gypsy’ band turned up to serenade us. But they were actually really good and I tossed a quid into their tambourine. But it was a real London scene I felt. A crowded sea of tables, a huge mix of people from everywhere and a fat Romanian bloke yelling ‘That’s Amore’ at the top of his lungs whilst leering at two young buxom drunken Australian girls dressed for a hen party in pink cowboy hats. Hm! Is this the land that produced Shakespeare? But aside from that it’s very much eat outside time in town right now. Try getting a seat by the River on any of the terraces along the Thames or Canals however. Booking in advance helps I’m told. February usually which is a bit of a blow. But there is some great food out there and add the sunshine and it is a pleasure to be in London right now if you know where to go. I would make lots of recommendations but then everyone else would go there and my little havens would be ruined. However in the Frost spirit I’ll give you one – just one mind – Check out the Mango Mousse (it’s a dessert) in a place called Siam Central in Charlottes Street off Tottenham Court Road. Thai food – fresh as you can imagine – tiny restaurant – food to savour! Oh yes and avoid Wednesdays that’s when I go. So what will happen next after the ‘riots’? Lessons will be learned ahem. A few dumb crooks will go to young offender institutions. Ebay will be flooded with cheap electrical goods and phones. But in truth absolutely nothing radical or clever will happen. So does anybody round here believe it will change the city and the way it operates. No. It’s a London thing.

Riots Will cost Taxpayer £100 Million, Mark Duggan 'Did Not Fire at Police'.

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Mark Duggan ‘did not fire at police’

It has emerged that Mark Duggan had a blank-firing gun which had been converted to hold live ammunition

16,000 police on duty in London

England game against Netherlands at Wembley tomorrow called off

Jamie Olivier’s restaurant in Birmingham was targeted by rioters

Police Cells are now full and 44 more police officers have been injured

Three people arrested for attempted murder of police officer

Cost of cleaning up the riots could cost taxpayers £100 million

Prime Minister David Cameron has recalled Parliament for Thursday so he can make a statement

Sloane Square Tube station was among dozens that were closed last night during the rioting

Youths congregating at Piccadilly, riot police are there

People urged to stay indoors

In Clapham youths went on the rampage trashing dozens of shops and walking out stolen goods.
Residents complained that police were very slow to respond as a Debenhams store was ransacked.

This morning Clapham high street was cordoned off as a investigation and the clear-up got underway.

Rioting began in Hackney at about 4pm yesterday when hooded youths began hurling missiles at officers and setting fire to bins and cars. Masked rioters on BMX bicycles armed with batons attacked a crowded London bus during the evening rush-hour, chasing terrified commuters as they tried to escape.

Some of the thugs were as young as eight and they forced the driver to stop the double-decker by pelting it with champagne bottles stolen from a nearby Tesco. About 40 passengers ran away, some carrying their children.

Within hours similar scenes erupted in Lewisham, spreading to Peckham, Deptford and Croydon.
Hundreds of fires were started all over the capital, North London; Camden, Woolwich in the south, in West London; Ealing. People were forced to take the law into their own hands to protect themselves and their family.

In Dalston and Hackney, shopkeepers fought back against looting youths and protected their businesses. Surrounding areas were pillaged as members of the town’s large Turkish community stood up outside their homes and businesses to protect them.

Home Secretary Theresa May said this morning that there had been 450 arrests in the last two nights but she ruled out bringing in the Army and using water cannon. She told BBC Breakfast:

‘British policing has always meant and always depended on the support of local communities and that’s what we need now.’

She told Sky News the capital needed ‘robust policing’ – and claimed that police budget cutting had not had an impact on the violence.

‘Don’t let police budgets be used as an excuse for what is going on on our streets is sheer criminality and nothing else.’

Patrick Mercer, the Tory MP and former Army officer, hit out and told the Telegraph that tougher policing should be used.

He said: ‘I find it strange that we are willing to use these sort of measures against the Irish yet when Englishmen step out of line and behave in this atrocious and appalling way, we are happy to mollycoddle them.’

Met Police Assistant Commissioner Stephen Kavanagh seemed to contradict the Home Secretary and said using the military had not been ruled out.

‘All options were discussed last night and that means, not that we’re doing it, the people of London need to know that the Commissioner and his management board team are considering everything and working through those options as we go forward,’ he told BBC Breakfast.

Mr Kavanagh said it was ‘a shocking and appalling morning for London to wake up to’ and he was struck by the ‘sheer scale and speed with which the attacks took place across London last night’. It ‘was truly unprecedented’

He said there was a ‘changing nature’ in the make-up of the rioters, with the profile changing ‘dramatically’ last night from 14 to 17-year-olds to ‘older groups in cars doing organised looting’.

He added: ‘And there was the far more focused attempt at injuring London Ambulance staff, there to help the community, trying to injure Fire Brigade officers and, of course, police officers.’

In Birmingham, West Midlands Police said it had made about 100 arrests and confirmed that a police station in Handsworth, Birmingham, was on fire. Merseyside Police said there were a number of incidents in South Liverpool and that cars had been set on alight.

Somerset Police reported 150 rioters were in Bristol city centre, with main roads closed and a number of shops damaged.

Councilors have said it will cost £227,000 to repair Tottenham

There is a brilliant article here on how the poverty these kids have is moral, not financial.http://www.thecommentator.com/article/359/london_rioters_are_the_pampered_children_of_the_welfare_state

And the Telegraph has a brilliant article with pictures of london before and after the riot

You can help people made homeless by the London riots by donating bedding, clothes, etc to Apex House, 820 Seven Sisters Road, London N15 5PQ

Sophie Michell & Ocado- Tweet Yourself Thin-recipes for summer: Tuesday

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TUESDAY

Coconut, Mango and banana smoothies

Makes 4
Prep time 5 minutes
300ml of natural coconut juice (like Vita coconut)
1 ripe mango
3 ripe bananas
1 lime
1. Peel and roughly chop the mango and bananas.
2. Place the fruit and the coconut juice into a blender and blitz until smooth,
then add the lime to taste and serve!
Sweet chilli and soy chicken wrap
Prep time 10 minutes
Cooking time 1o minutes
3 chicken breasts (approx 180g each)
1 tsp soy sauce
2 step sweet chilli sauce
½ cucumbers
2 spring onions
2 carrots
Handful of rocket
4 flour tortillas
1. Cut the chicken breasts into strips and then mix with the soy sauce and a table spoon of the chilli
sauce. Leave while you prep the veggies.
2. Cut the cucumber into strips, and then do the same with the spring onions and the carrots.
3. Heat up a frying pan and then pan fry the chicken strips for about 10 minutes, turning
occasionally. Make sure the chicken is cooked throughout.
4. Then build the wraps, by piling up some veggies, chicken strips and rocket, in a tortilla with an
extra drizzle of chilli sauce if wanted.

Pecorino, Pear and watercress salad with char grilled turkey breasts
Serves 4
Prep time 10 minutes
Cooking time 15 minutes
4 turkey breast steaks (approx 180g per steak)
4 ripe pears
2 celery sticks
150g pecorino cheese
150g watercress leaves
50ml olive oil
Squeeze of lemon
Sea salt and pepper
2 tsp thick balsamic

1. Heat a griddle pan up very hot and then oil and season the turkey steaks. Then lay each steak
down on the griddle and cook for about 5 minutes each side.
2. Finely slice the pears and the celery (on an extreme diagonal looks great) then using a peeler add
shavings of the cheese and add the watercress. Mix with the lemon and the olive oil, and then
season.
3. Pile up the turkey breast and salad on the plates then drizzle with a little balsamic

26-Year-Old Man Is First To Die In London Riots

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London Riots: Worst Civil Unrest in Decades

A murder hunt was launched after a 26-year-old man died after being admitted to hospital suffering from gunshot wounds.

According to a police statement, the as yet unnamed victim was discovered in a car at about 9.15pm in Croydon, south London.

As the man became the first fatality of the ‘unprecedented’ London riots, David Cameron has come back from Tuscany early to deal with the unrest. He went into a meeting with COBR (the Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms) at 9am and then made a statement saying: “If you’re old enough to commit these crimes, you’re old enough to face the consequences.”

This came after the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s website queried: “Where were the statesmen as London burned?” ABC went on to say: “London burned and meanwhile Prime Minister David Cameron fiddled with the foil on a bottle of Pinot Grigio in Tuscany, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg quietly recovered at home from his getaway in sunny France and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osbourne remained ensconced at a hotel somewhere in Beverly Hills.

“Britain’s already shaky confidence in its leaders, several of whom have spent the summer trying to wriggle free of their association with the hacking scandal, will be further disturbed by the determination of the nation’s powerbrokers to cling to the sun bed.”

The troubles started on Saturday after a protest outside Tottenham police station descended into violence. A crowd demonstrated after alleged gangster, Mark Duggan, 29, was shot dead on Thursday. The protest began peacefully, but soon descended into chaos and has since spread around the UK.

Last night it wasn’t just London that was affected – Bristol, Liverpool and Birmingham also suffered riots with mass looting – while surburban Ealing in west London was also hit by looters.

People have been left homeless after their homes were set on fire, shops were ransacked, and, in a chilling development, people were asked to get out of their cars by looters before their vehicles were set ablaze. One women talked of waking up to find a masked man at the foot of her bed, after looters broke into her home. It is also alleged that the rioters tried to set fire to Ealing Studios, while Tesco and Sainsbury’s were attacked. Shocked and determined locals met at the Ealing Horse pub to begin to cleaning up their neighbourhood from 10am today.

Frost found this video of the violence in Ealing:

 

In Notting Hill, acclaimed restaurant The Ledbury was attacked and dinners were mugged, before thugs were chased off by kitchen staff. There were also reports on Twitter of yobs wielding machetes in the area.

One rioter said: “We are getting our taxes back.”  It was, however, unconfirmed whether or not this person – and many others involved – have ever actually paid tax.

As 16,000 police are set to retake London, Home Secretary Theresa May said:  ‘We don’t do water cannon, we rely on consent,” as she ruled out tough action. She added: ‘We need robust policing but we also need to ensure that justice is done through the courts.”

As vigilantes are forced to defend shops, she has been criticised for the soft approach and the government appears increasingly out of kilter with the mood of law-abiding citizens.

In the meantime, the police have put photos on their website to try and find some of the culprits, link here

The Met added that 334 people have been arrested in London since rioting broke out on Saturday. So far 69 have been charged.

The youngest person to be arrested so far is 11 years old.