GB News will not be investigated over ‘no riot in Belfast’ claim

Ofcom will not investigate GB News presenter Bev Turner for comments denying riots in Belfast last month, despite receiving more than four hundred complaints. Turner claimed there 'weren't riots' and no houses had been burnt, contradicting accounts of violent disorder where cars and homes were set alight, police were attacked, and families fled their homes. The Guardian reports the regulator's decision stands despite the complaints.

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