Shootings Update

Here's the latest news following the recent fatal shootings:

Did 15-year-old Billy Cox die because of a text message?

Sir Ian Blair will be meeting John Reid to discuss the shootings.

Cameron reckons it's down to the fathers and wants powers introduced to "compel" them to look after the kids.

The BBC has been testing the mood on the streets:

They have no conscience. They think they can just do whatever they like. They bully guys and they carry dangerous weapons... I have seen people with knives. I've been mugged by someone with a knife. Teenagers are going round thinking 'everybody else has a knife, I need one too'... I saw someone pull out a gun in KFC in Peckham because someone banged a table as they passed. Everybody ran into the toilet including a pregnant woman and a woman with a child... They have to offer them something to get off the street.

Shadow trade and industry secretary Alan Duncan thinks that it is up to the Tories to "re-civilise" the country.

The Daily Mail bought a gun in London within two hours.

Here's what the front pages are saying.

Image via The Guardian