内容摘要：Dean Piacenti lives just meters from the hole and said the "uncertainty is horrible".

Dean Piacenti lives just meters from the hole and said the "uncertainty is horrible".

"But what happened this week in Southport, and what's happened elsewhere in the country, is organised individuals who have undertaken criminal activity to intimidate, to attack police, to break personal property, and that's not acceptable."Highlighting how conspiracy to organise a riot is an offence, he added "we are reminding people who are going to potentially commit this crime that we are watching them through intelligence-led policing".

Asked about the possibility of violent protests this weekend, he told LBC: “There is that potential, but I always say to anybody who's organising this, we will be watching you."Security staff are being hired at mosques in cities across the UK due to phoned-in threats about “targeted attacks”, the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) reported.There is “deep-seated anxiety” and “palpable fear” among communities, MCB secretary-general Zara Mohammed said, urging mosques to work closely with police.

Ms Mohammed said: “We go by what we’ve seen already and from what online posters are saying, but it sounds like far-right thugs and mobs are going to seek to intimidate congregations and mosques.“In Southport they were pelting stones and glass bottles, shouting Islamophobic slurs and abuse.

“So it’s likely that we may again see groups of men and thugs coming together outside of the mosques to intimidate.”

Protests are understood to be planned for areas such as Liverpool, Glasgow, Lancaster, Blackburn, Newcastle, Birmingham, Sunderland, Dover, Middlesbrough, Leeds and Hull, the MCB said.He said the policy had only ever targeted public service workers in Canberra, but accused Labor of portraying it otherwise in a "smear campaign".

Shadow finance minister Jane Hume said the coalition was now proposing no change to flexible working arrangements."We have listened, and understand that flexible work, including work from home, is part of getting the best out of any workforce," she said in a statement.

The Coalition has also clarified its proposal to cut 41,000 public service jobs to help fund its other policy promises. It has long been asked to detail in which departments it will find the savings, and a key party figure had suggested forced redundancies were on the table.However, on Monday, Ms Hume said the party - if elected - would attempt to achieve the reduction over five years through a hiring freeze and natural attrition.