Mayor of the North East Kim McGuinness said that a police station had been set on fire in the Sunderland disorder.Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms McGuinness said: "I have spoken this morning to the chief constable of Northumbria Police and I'm very grateful to them. What they had to put up with was real sustained violence."We have seen police injured, we've seen 10 people so far arrested but I very much hope that we'll see more of that throughout the day."She added: "You can see there's really sig

Mayor of the North East Kim McGuinness said that a police station had been set on fire in the Sunderland disorder.Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms McGuinness said: "I have spoken this morning to the chief constable of Northumbria Police and I'm very grateful to them. What they had to put up with was real sustained violence."We have seen police injured, we've seen 10 people so far arrested but I very much hope that we'll see more of that throughout the day."She added: "You can see there's really significant damage, they've set fire to a police station, to cars, they've looted shops, they've abused people in the street, they've attacked police officers and Sunderland will be feeling the effect of that."