Burnley’s riots sent shock waves right across East Lancashire.

The sudden eruption of violence on such a scale took many by surprise and prompted a hard look at life in the town.

The report by Lord Clarke and the Burnley Task Force into the events of June 2001 highlighted a lot that was wrong.

Running through it was a picture of a deprived area with lots of social problems and, crucially, white and Asian people living ‘parallel lives.’ A decade on there is visible evidence that many things have changed.

Streets of rotting houses have been bulldozed and rebuilt or modernised, new schools have been constructed and there is a gleaming university and college campus.

A lot of good work has also been done to try to bridge the racial divide and those efforts deserve real praise.

But there is clearly a long way to go.

People with businesses in the town tell how taxi drivers and takeaway staff regularly suffer racial abuse.

As the Bishop of Burnley says, real integration will not have been achieved until Asian people have the confidence to live anywhere in the town and white people have the confidence not to feel threatened by them.