Clearly the focus of the disorder was around criminality.

There were some disagreements and we ended up with what was billed as race riots, when at the start that didn’t have anything to do with it.

It was a testing time when you have something like what happened in Burnley, or Oldham or Bradford.

It gets on the national agenda and there is a lot of focus, even at a ministerial level.

But we have been working really hard with our partners, particularly in areas like Burnley.

Now we have community beat managers and PCSOs across borough, some funded by council.

Pennine hate crime unit has won awards for a lot of local initiatives to resolve differences.

I am really confident that because of that foundation, because of that ability to spot something unusual happening, that we would never end up in the same situation again.

We will always have elements who will cause problems, if it is through ethnicity or sexuality.

And we will always have people that fail to recognise the benefits of understanding different cultures and points of view.

My experience in this town is when you speak to a community as a whole there is a genuine desire to improve things and to work through whatever problems there are.

I would like to see this negative tag, which has been attached to the town, removed.

The football team was promoted to the Premier League and automatically it seemed to disappear for a while.

People could it was a really forward-thinking place and local people need to support that.