it's more the fact that it that, jon magrin. it's more the fact thatitis that, jon magrin.riminal activity. another reason for the escalation or the rise in acid attacks in this country is that it's actually used in a wide variety of different types of criminal activity. so, intimidation of court witnesses, robbery, theft, drug deals that have gone wrong. revenge and retaliation against somebody who has disrespected you all annoyed you. what we do know is that the vast majority of attacks in this country, the victim is known to the offender. whilst the general public may feel that there is a load of random attacks taking place, in actual fact they are pretty targeted. also, i was reading your research into this. it seems it has been brought into initiation of gang members as well. i haven't quite found that yet, but i have spoken to a few gang members. they are certainly aware of the clamp—down on knives. so there is some anecdotal suggestion that there is a shift from carrying knives to carrying acid. and when i asked them why, they would say, well, if you're going to use

magrin. coming up before 10am... the weather and sport headlines. coming up. hello, this is breakfast, with naga munchetty and jons senior eu figures are willing to consider changing rules on the free movement of people to accommodate britain. speaking to radio 4's today programme, mr blair refused to be drawn on his contacts within the eu, but insisted his claims were not just made on "a whim". the government insists brexit will give the uk greater control of its borders but mr blair insists continuing towards brexit would be "delusional". if people seriously believe that this is the wrong thing for the country, and i think there's every day passes, and the damage becomes clearer, not just the day passes, and the damage becomes clearer, notjust the damage of doing brexit but the damage of distracting from the big challenges facing the country, even if doctors talk about me being the lesion or an optimist, —— even if you talk about me being an optimist. even if it happens, people should say this is a serious mistake, possibly the worst since the world war we should think about the consequences. laws on buying and