Good evening and welcome to our continuing coverage of the unrest around England.
• David Cameron has pledged that a "fightback is under way" against the rioters and announced that plans are now in place for water cannon to be available to police at 24 hours' notice. The prime minister has also praised the police's "more robust approach" in London last night, and vowed: "We will not allow a culture of fear to exist on our streets." He said that gang culture had to be addressed: "For too long there has been a lack of focus and a complete lack of respect shown by these groups of thugs."
• Three men who were killed in an alleged hit-and-run incident in Birmingham have been named. They are Haroon Jahan, 21, and brothers Shazad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31. West Midlands Police have arrested a 32-year-old man on suspicion of murder and recovered a car.
• The home secretary, Theresa May, has ordered senior officers to cancel "all police leave" to deal with the riots in England. May said "maximising the police presence on the street must be a priority" in affected areas during a meeting and conference call with chief constables.
• The London mayor, Boris Johnson, has opened a rift with the Tory leadership by arguing that recent events have shown that policing cuts are not a good idea." If you ask me whether I think there is a case for cutting police budgets in the light of these event, then my answer to that would be no. I think that case was always pretty frail, and it has been substantially weakened," he said.
Our correspondent in Manchester, Jeevan Vasagar, reports that police have issued a statement in response to amateur footage which shows a police officer encountering a youth on a bike.
The youth dismounts and appears to be knocked to the ground, where he is then apparently struck by an officers as he lies on the ground. The youth, who is presumably a suspected rioter, later gets up by himself.
In the statement, police say the "circumstances surrounding" the footage are currently unknown, but suggest the incident may be looked at by the force's Professional Standards Branch. That wording suggests the police aren't denying the authenticity of the film, just its context.
Here is the full police statement from Greater Manchester Police:
Police officers responding to incidents last night in Salford and Manchester were faced with extraordinary and unprecedented levels of violence being used against them. The Professional Standards Branch is part of GMP's response in dealing with the aftermath of this critical situation. As the circumstances surrounding the footage of this particular incident are currently unknown, it is inappropriate for GMP to comment further.
Reader Lee Stanley has been in touch from Birmingham, with this depressing vignette.
I live and work in central Birmingham and walk down the main shopping streets and back every day. It has been sleepless nights of endless sirens and helicopters overhead, and in the daytime it's eerie to see shops boarded up and closing or closed at 4.30pm.
I spoke to the owner of the Total petrol station on Bristol Street in Birmingham, which was looted in the early hours of Tuesday morning and again last night. It is normally open 24 hours and staff were inside the first time it was broken into. They told me they were threatened by the looters, told they would be killed and the shop burnt. The looters kicked the door down to the back area of the shop and got behind the counter to steal cigarettes while the staff hid in the toilet.
Later that morning the garage was open again as normal, having removed the valuables and cigarettes that were left – they put signs on the windows. It closed early evening and looters arrived approx 10.30pm last night, and I watched from my flat which overlooks Bristol Street as the shop was looted again. I phoned the police and after 20 minutes of watching small groups arrive, go in the shop and then leave, arrived with a dog unit and caught four looters inside the shop.
They have boarded up the door properly now and are confident that the rest of the shop front's glass is tough enough as it had been hit by hammers before and not been smashed. As I spoke to them they were just about to close up for the night. I told them I would keep my eyes and ears open for any trouble there tonight and call police if anyone gets inside. We wished each other well and hope this is all over soon.
This isn't the same petrol station that was burgled in Winson Green where three men died today. It is really upsetting to hear about what has happened there. We try to get on with our lives but this isn't the Birmingham I know and love any more.
Another of our reporters in Manchester, Shiv Malik, says a number of city centre bars and licensed premises have decided to close up early this evening. Manchester Police have told us that they haven't given any explicit instructions about this but as one hotel manager put it, they want to be "ahead" of the game.
It had been raining quite heavily (even for Manchester) but that has eased up now. In Piccadilly Gardens, the police presence is very strong with fluorescent jacketed officers stationed in pairs every 40 feet or so. Police vans are parked in and around the square.
The atmosphere remains tense but police officers have said they have not heard of any incidents yet. On Market Street the scene of some of last night's violence, and where Ed Milliband toured earlier today, shops have either shuttered their windows or are boarding them up. Carpenters are still hurriedly shoring up Debenhams with plywood.
My colleague Jeevan Vasagar and I are also keeping an eye on this meeting billed as a Stop the Manchester Riots event. However it has also been promoted on Facebook pages linked to the English Defence League.
People were supposed to meet at 5pm outside Cafe Nero beside Piccadilly train station and over 600 people have said they would attend but currently there is no one there except a few police officers. One of the organisers said people were running late, including him, as his car had broken down outside town.
Our correspondent in Liverpool, Alexandra Topping, has managed to get an interview with one man involved with the riots in the city. Taking shelter from the driving rain on Lodge Lane in Toxteth, he tells her why he has taken to the streets.
Lighting up a huge joint, he took a drag and said: "These are my boys. I'm not just going to stay at home and miss out on all the fun."
For him, the last two nights have been a chance to "get his own back" on a police force which he detests, accusing them of targeting young people from the area.
"They are bastards. Fuck the police, man. They are not all bad but most of them are. No-one around here has got any liking for the police. Fuck them."
The 25-year-old, who did not want to give his name, described an "adrenalin rush" as gangs of youths, thought to number 200 at the height of the troubles in the city which centred on low-income areas in the South of the city, but sparked also on the other side of the Mersey in Birkenhead.
"Police patrol these streets every night of the week and we only get to riot every few years. They can't come here laying down the law like they do all year round. People are rioting because the riot is finally here."
As the Guardian has been reporting, much of the unrest over the past four night has been organised using BBM – a PIN-protected instant message system only accessible to BlackBerry users.
The Guardian has been sourcing Blackberry Messenger broadcasts, which have been useful in providing real-time updates and predictions about future incidents.
If you have received messages you think we should see, or live near an area affected by unrest and want to let us know, please add us. The Guardian's BBM name is 'Paul', and the PIN number is 22416EC1.
While we're not able to respond to every message, they're all appreciated.
My colleague Henry McDonald, who's in Birmingham, has spoken to a group of youths about the unrest in the city.
He writes that the youths, who were moved on by police officers from Birmingham's main shopping centre, predicted a repetition of the inter-ethnic violence that flared in the city back in 2005 following the three Asian men's deaths in the early hours of this morning.
Deano Obano said he hoped there would be no trouble between Birmingham's Asian and Black communities but he feared for the worse tonight.
Speaking close to the Odeon Cinema in New Street and competing with the yelps of police dogs barking frantically from inside a van, he said:
That was really wrong what happened last night in Birmingham to the three lads. But listen it is going to be like it was in 2005. I don't agree with violence like that but because of what happened. It's going to go off tonight in terms of Blacks versus Asians. And that is a bad thing - people should go in and lock their doors.
He also criticised the police claiming that they were "too quick to pull the trigger" and blamed the anger among youths not only in Birmingham but across England on "this corrupt society."
Some of Obano's friends who did not want to be named disagreed and denied that there would be inter-racial violence in the city.
Obano and his mates had had their names and addresses taken by police officers some of whom were wearing fireproof grey boiler-style overalls of the type worn by police officers in Northern Ireland.
A woman cycles past a burnt out car on Lawrence road in Wavertree, Liverpool, after a second night of rioting. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA
Alexandra Topping, who's in Liverpool, has spoken to some of the victims of the city's riots, including shopkeepers whose stores were vandalised and looted.
Along Lawrence Road, in Wavertree near Toxteth in south Liverpool, several small local businesses were hit hard, with devastating consequences for the future, she writes.
Idriss Majad used to be a legal investigator in Iraq, before fleeing violence in the country and seeking asylum in the UK. After receiving permission to remain, he opened a shop, just last month.
"I came to this country for safety and when I got permission to stay I tried to invest. I borrowed money and I invested everything I had in this shop," he said.
He estimated that with the stock, mainly cigarettes, stolen and the damage done to windows, the counter and shutter, it would cost him around £5,000. "It is huge for me. Already I can't make nothing, but I was building for the future. It is miserable, I am very nervous but I have to carry on with my business because I don't want them to win."
Here's the latest Guardian story on the those charged with offences in connection to the unrest in London.
Police cells in the capital are now full of suspects from the disturbances and 167 people have been charged with offences. They are being dealt with at a number of courts, some of which held sessions late in to the evening on Tuesday.
Those who appeared in court today included Alexis Bailey, a primary school assistant who works at Stockwell, and an 11-year-old boy, who was the youngest defendant.
Severin Carrell, our Scotland correspondent, writes that two teenagers have been remanded in jail after appearing in court charged with using Facebook to "incite riots" in Glasgow and Dundee.
Their arrests follow intensive surveillance of social networking sites by police forces across the UK after several services, including Twitter, Facebook and the BlackBerry smartphone messaging service were used to orchestrate much of the urban violence over the last four days.
Liam Allan, 18, on Benvie Gardens, Dundee, appeared in private at Dundee sheriff court on charges of creating a public event listing on Facebook on Tuesday which "incited others to riot within Dundee city centre".
Allan is accused of a breach of the peace and conducting himself in a disorderly manner, but made no plea or declaration.
In a separate and unrelated case, a 16-year-old appeared at Glasgow sheriff court charged with breach of the peace for setting up a group on Facebook which "incited others to riot" in the city this Friday.
The teenager, from Ibrox, Glasgow, allegedly conducted himself in a disorderly manner. He made no plea or declaration and was remanded.
It emerged this week that Facebook users themselves initially complained about one of the Scottish pages, which was closed down by the web company before the police made an arrest.
The charges came after Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister, complained about broadcasters headlining coverage of urban unrest as "UK riots". Salmond said he was not complacent but claimed Scottish society was different from that in England, and that similar riots were much less likely in Scotland.
A 20-year old woman has been charged after allegedly posting a Facebook invite to a "riot" in Wakefield.
The woman was charged under the Serious Offences Act 2007 and has been bailed to appear before Wakefield Magistrates on August 24, said a West Yorkshire Police spokeswoman.
Chuka Umunna, Labour MP for Streatham, says that there is likely to be an announcement in the next 24 hours about funding to compensate for the unrest in London.
His comments came after he had a meeting with Home Office minister James Brokenshire about the unrest.
But the MP added that "on the negative side" the minister told him there were no plans for additional Home Office and policing funding in the wake of the unrest.
My colleague James Ball writes that Merseyside Police has up a WikiLeaks-style online form to allow Liverpool residents to submit photos or videos of rioting or looting across the city.
Users are allowed to give their names if they wish, but police will accept submissions with no personal details whatsoever.
The force is offering users advice on how to transfer video from their mobile phone to the computer and is also encouraging less tech-savvy citizens to provide information in confidence to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111
Jake Mills, a trainee reporter in Liverpool, has sent us this dispatch of the scene on the streets of Wavertree in the early hours of this morning.
Smithdown Road, Wavertree, was the scene of some brutal attacks on police and buildings last night, leading to 50 arrests across Merseyside.
"I was genuinely shocked and disturbed by the scenes I was witnessing. The youths on the streets seemed hell bent on causing as much physical damage to police as possible. There was no talk of looting or personal gain, instead it seemed that they were taking their chance to attack the authorities, through completely unprovoked and heavy violence."
But he adds that the people of Liverpool "are making a stand".
"Community meetings have been independently arranged and plans put together to prevent rioters striking the streets. As well as that there have been groups brought together to arrange clean up jobs, in which residents fix what damage has been caused. This is very much a city together making a stand against the minority tarnishing their great city."
Scotland Yard has said suspected rioters and looters can be beaten with weapons if they are honestly thought to pose a danger, writes my colleague Vikram Dodd.
In a document sent to businesses in the capital, police gave explicit guidance on what constitutes "reasonable force", saying people do not have to wait to be attacked if they are in their own home or business.
With police numbers stretched the limit, the Met said if someone "honestly and instinctively" believed they, their business or another person was in danger, they could use force.
The guidance says: "You are not expected to make fine judgements over the level of force you use in the heat of the moment."
It adds a weapon can be used and says: " The more extreme the circumstances and the fear felt, the more force you can lawfully use in self-defence."
The Met guidance says use of a weapon could also be lawful and constitute reasonable force.
It is understood the guidance was issued after business owners asked for advice about how much force they could use to defend themselves and their property.
The three men who died in Birmingham were believed to have been defending their property.
West Midlands Police say they have arrested a further 48 people in connection with the unrest in the city.
A post on the force's Twitter account states: "During the course of the last four hours there have been 48 arrests in addition to those already arrested over the last three days."
The force has also released more photos of people they want to speak to in connection with disorder in the city centre on Monday night.
The force has now released 32 CCTV images. Some show suspects with armfuls of clothes following the widespread looting that took place at shops across the area.
Ashraf Haziq at the Royal London hospital, where he is recovering after being mugged in Barking during rioting in London. Photograph: YouTube
A Malaysian student who was mugged by youths posing as good Samaritans during the London riots has said they threatened to stab him.
Ashraf Haziq, 20, was seen in a YouTube video bleeding after being punched in the jaw less than a month after arriving in Britain. Hooded youths initially pretended to help him to his feet - then went through his rucksack, stealing his mobile phone and wallet, in Barking, east London.
Ashraf, from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, relived his ordeal from his hospital bed when he was visited by a friend who filmed the chat and posted it online.
"They threatened to stab me, they told me they had knives," Ashraf says in the footage, available on YouTube and translated by Channel 4 News.
"Some of them were quite young, maybe still in primary school. They had their hoods on and demanded my bicycle."
Ashraf was due to undergo an operation on his broken jaw today.
Two men in Manchester have already been jailed for their part in last night's riots in Manchester, according to tweets from the official Greater Manchester Police account.
Both were jailed for public order offences, one for 10 weeks and the other for 16. The account did not name the individuals concerned, but vowed they would be the "first of many".
In another Tweet, the force added: Extra courts sitting tonight to deal with prisoners. GMP will update with all the sentences as soon as they are given.
The full extent of last night's violence and vandalism across England has emerged as hospital admissions and arrests were added up, streets cleared of burnt-out vehicles, and shopkeepers attempted to estimate their losses in ruined or looted stock and shattered premises.
Detectives are struggling to identify a "community hero" who suffered life-threatening injuries when he tried to stop teenage rioters during disorder in London on Monday, my colleagues Lizzy Davies and Sandra Laville write.
For the past two days officers investigating the attack on the man in Ealing, west London, have been trying to find anyone who might know him, but so far no one has come forward. On the social networking site Twitter he is being called a "community hero", but locally no one seems to know who he is, where he comes from or whether he has any friends or relatives.
Guardian leader writer Aditya Chakrabortty offers an analysis of the political reaction to the past nights' unrest, which he says has been too simplistic and partisan.
If you're a left-winger, the causes of the violence and looting are straight-forward: they're the result of monstrous inequality and historic spending cuts; while the youth running amok through branches of JD Sports are what happens when you offer a generation plastic consumerism rather than meaningful jobs.
For the right, explaining the violence is even simpler – because any attempt at understanding is tantamount to condoning it. Better by far to talk of a society with a sense of over-entitlement; or to do what the prime minister did yesterday and simply dismiss "pockets of our society that are not just broken but, frankly, sick". You can expect to hear more of the same rhetoric in today's debate in parliament, especially from backbenchers on either side.
Riot police surround a group of local people outside a church in Eltham. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP
My colleague Ben Quinn says police are trying to disperse a crowd of men in Eltham, south east London. In a Twitter post, he says: "Am told it's not a kettle, but looks like one."
Merseyside Police have said the situation in the area tonight seems quiet so far.
A post on the force's twitter account states: "As of 8.42pm, there are no disorder incidents or related road closures in Liverpool or Wirral."
My colleague Riazat Butt, who is in Birmingham, says West Midlands Police are doubling their numbers on city's streets tonight
The force is reinforcing their presence with officers from West Mercia and Warwickshire, to prevent a repeat of Tuesday's disturbances that led to the deaths of three men, she writes.
Shabana Mahmood, MP for Birmingham Ladywood, said the West Midland Police force is significantly increasing its visibility in the city centre, which saw widespread looting and vandalism, and Winson Green, where three men died after being struck by a car carrying suspected looters.
The MP said: "A lot of people were out on the streets last night because they felt they needed to protect their properties.
"There are hundreds of police officers with reinforcements from West Mercia and Warwickshire. They are alive to people's concerns. There is a doubling of police presence. It's not a complaint people can make any more."
The three men who died were named today as brothers Shazad Ali and Abdul Musavir and their friend Haroon Jahan.
Mahmood, who is the constituency MP for the Winson Green area, said she had spent the day in public meetings, listening to the fears and anger of residents and business owners. One meeting, at the Summerfield Community Centre, was particularly difficult.
"Emotions were running very high. It was very clear that that we need to make sure that people remain calm. The father of the deceased came in and said he wanted the police to be given the space needed to find his son's killers. The murder investigation has more than 60 officers on it."
Mahmood said she spent time with families of the deceased. She described the mother of Haroon Jahan as "distressed".
"Nobody was able to approach her. I know quite a few of the family members, I've campaigned with them. They were expressing their shock. The relatives are a bit dazed and can't work out what's happened.
"For a few nights we've been talking about the disturbances, but things have been happening to places not people."
She also addressed local rumours that there was a racial element to the Winson Green incident.
"People have been drawing that inference and we are well aware that we've had these issues in the past. That's the first thing people have started talking about. That's why we've been making sure that the grass roots community can put their fears in front of the police."
My colleague Ben Quinn, who's Eltham in south east London, has rung in to say that hundreds of white men have been dispersed by the police from the high street.
He says: "The men were moved on after being served with a section 27 dispersal order. It's not a kettle but it's designed to move the large group away in different directions."
One local man told him that messages had been posted on Facebook groups "and the word spread that there were going to be groups of black youths coming from neighbouring areas, such as Lewisham.
The man went on to claim that "everyone knows this is a white area and we're surrounded by black areas. We've a reputation for being racist but it's not fair."
Ben adds that the police are out in force in riot gear and there are at least a dozen police vans parked on the high street.
Alex Thomson of Channel Four News has tweeted that hundreds of riot police were confronting about 200 EDL supporters in Eltham, with at least one arrest being made.
He tweeted: "Bottles thrown at riot cops by group of middle aged white guys.
"They're shouting EDL slogans at cops. Cops charging crowd out from Eltham town ctr.
"100s cops - many Welsh - making at least 1. Arrest. Pushed back crowd of white m-aged men shouting EDL and chucking stuff. Over 1000 cops here.
My colleague Matt Taylor, who's in Birmingham, has rung in to say there are 6,000 police officers in the city tonight - and so far it's relatively quiet:
There's a big police presence. Most of the city centre has been sealed off to traffic. There are helicopters overhead. At the moment it seems quiet but there's still an atmosphere of tension with a few people hanging around.
A police officer said there were 6,000 police in the city, including officers from Grampian and Strathclyde police forces.
The officer, who was sat on a motorbike, said: "We're doing all we can and we hope this amount of police acts as a deterrent. But in the end if people are determined to commit violence there's not a lot we can do. All we can do is arrest as many as we can."
Here's the latest statement from West Midlands Police about today's police operation and arrests.
The Metropolitan Police have named the man killed by a gunshot wound and found in car in Croydon on Monday night as 26-year-old Trevor Ellis.
Nottingham council has threatened to evict council tenants if found guilty of criminality in last nights riots.
Trafford council follows Manchester and Salford in pledging action against tenants or their children found to be involved in the riots.
Benn Quinn has rung in with an update on the situation in Eltham where police are confronting EDL supporters.
He says police officers left Eltham Hill about 45 minutes ago after dispersing around 200 men hurling projectiles. But the police later returned and made some arrests.
"They've got men against the walls, handcuffing them," said Ben.
The Met Police have released CCTV footage of a suspect and an image of a potential witness in connection with the serious assault of a man during the riots in Ealing on Monday night.
The press release describes the suspect as "a black man with a big build wearing a white t-shirt with writing on the front and dark coloured jumper over his shoulders."
Detective Chief Inspector John McFarlane, who is leading the investigation, said: "If you know who this man is please contact my incident room. If you are this man in the CCTV, do the decent thing and give yourself up."
He added that the still image of another man was someone they believe "was not involved in the disorder but would have been close to the attack of our victim at the time it happened."
McFarlane added: "I am appealing to him to come forward and, hopefully, greatly help us with our inquiry."
Officers also believe they know who the victim is and are in the process of tracing his next of kin. The man remains in hospital in a critical condition.
My colleague Henry McDonald, who's in Birmingham, has been speaking to people in Winson Green where three men died after being struck by a car.
Naz Iqbal arrived with friends who lit a candle at the bus stop where the three men died.
Iqbal said he agreed with the father of one of the men killed in appealing for peace and calm.
"His dad was right. There should be peace now. People should go home and stay safe."
Iqbal said there were people coming down from as far away as Bradford but only to pay their respects and not to cause any trouble.
Earlier this evening PA reported there was a crowd of around 200 people gathered on Dudley Road around the area where the three friends were killed.
A group of around four men, flanked by another 50, were seen arguing with a police officer, who did not raise his voice and slowly walked away from the group.
One man was heard saying loudly to the officer: "What would you do if you lost a son?"
Another said to a reporter: "We're not causing tension, we're just raising our concerns."
Mazhar Iqbal, 34, told the crowd he believed the police were not doing enough to help the community feel safe, causing locals to feel they had to take action if more trouble was headed their way.
We're ready, we've got to stop it now whether we have to take it into our own hands.
We're ready to do whatever we can to protect our families and our community.
Three brothers have been martyred. They are gone. This is not about causing trouble, we want peace, Islam is about peace and love, but we want these criminals stopped.
Greater Manchester Police says it has arrested two men found with a fuel can, balaclava and ball bearings.
In the post on Twitter, the force adds "if you want to commit disorder, we'll lock you up."
Assistant Chief Constable Garry Shewan also tweets: "People still arming themselves to attack property & police. I myself found an axe wrapped in a stolen shirt whilst in the city this morning."
My colleague Randeep Ramesh says Nottingham city centre is quiet, with police cars and officers, some on horseback, patrolling the main shopping precincts.
Nottingham police said it had "hundreds of officers out" and that streets are quiet throughout the county. There were "no problems reported at this time".
Assistant Chief Constable Paul Scarrott, in command of tonight's operation for Nottingham police, said that rioters have been deterred by heavy police presence and hardline response of authorities.
"You do it [and] you will get caught and the whole weight of justice system will fall on you."
Nottingham Police also said the first of a number of people arrested in connection with violent disorder in the city have been charged.
In a statement, the force said:
Sam Lowe, 20, of Keswick Court, Sneinton will appear at Nottingham magistrates court today charged with section 44 of the serious crime act, which is to intentionally encourage or assist the commission of an offence.
A 16-year-old boy, from St Ann's, has been charged with violent disorder.
Owen Johnson, 18, of Mansfield Court, Mansfield Road, has been charged with disorderly behaviour.
A vigil is being held at the scene where three young men were killed on Dudley Road, Birmingham, in the early hours of yesterday morning.
ITV News producer Jess Brammar has been tweeting from the scene over the last ten minutes:
She writes:
"Quite a few young men gathering at site of last night's incident, but mood calm at the moment.
Vigil organisers say sikhs and muslims must come together, "one god, if we can come together the madness can end across the UK"
"Community leaders from Sikh & Muslim communities,& amazing dignity of Tariq Jahan, seems to have diffused what was v tense situation earlier."
My colleague Henry McDonald, has filed this update on the situation in Birmingham, which he says remains calm:
There is still a very heavy police presence here on the Dudley Road in and around the scene of the fatal crash at the Jet garage.On the ringroad leading into the city centre there are three police vehicles monitoring traffic while on Dudley Road I have counted at least five police vans. Officers are also on the beat on both sides of the road tonight and the atmosphere in general is calm.
Meanwhile West Midlands Police have begun the process of recovering "thousands of pounds worth" of items stolen by looters, the force said in a series of messages on Twitter.
"Further raids will follow over the coming days in an effort to bring those responsible to justice."
Alexandra Topping, who has been driving round Liverpool, says there is a strong police presence in the centre of the city which is "completely quiet".
In Toxteth, which has seen the worst of the violence in the past two nights, police cars and patrols can be seen every 20m or so.
The only other people on the streets are Toxteth residents in high visibility vests, making sure the streets are safe.
One member of the patrol team, which was also present last night and credited with preventing worse violence than Monday night, said the patrol were formed to address local parents' concerns.
"We are out to keep the streets clear and make sure there is no danger to our children. That is the most important thing here."
My colleague Henry McDonald in Birmingham has filed a report on the vigil held at the scene where three young men were killed on Dudley Road last night.
Tariq Jahan, father of one of the three people killed, stood side by side with members of the local Sikh community who also attended the Islamic prayer service.
Around 50 men attended the memorial shortly before midnight and many praised Tariq Jahan's appeal for communal peace.
Handsworth resident Majahid Iqbal cried out after prayers, "United we stand divided we fall."
Iqbal said: "Mr Jahan's has set a great example and is contributing to the peace you see here tonight. No one was trouble or further violence, nothing like that will bring these young men back. You see people here from the Muslim and Asian community, from the Sikh community, from the black community and the white. "
Iqbal also supported demands for more robust policing to keep communities safe both in Birmingham and across England.
"I don't blame the police because I think their hands are tied. When I hear of looters being arrested in other cities and then given just ten days in jail then you have to admit that the police are hampered," he added.
The atmosphere at the prayer service in the forecourt of the garage where the fatal crash happened in the early hours of Wednesday morning was dignified and calm. Police officers some of whom wore Sikh headdress mingled with the crowd gathered around for prayers.
From this group at least there were no predictions of any inter-communal violence or a desire to see tensions raised any further despite the deaths of the three local men.
Here's a photo of the vigil.
Here's Alexandra Topping's full report on the situation in Liverpool tonight.
Three teenage boys have been arrested in connection with the arson attack which destroyed the Sony distribution centre in Enfield, north London.
Scotland Yard said two 17-year-olds and an 18-year-old had been arrested in connection with violent disorder and the arson at the warehouse, used by record companies such as XL and Domino, who are behind acts including Adele and Arctic Monkeys. Two others remain in custody while a 17-year-old has been bailed.
Here's more details on Trevor Ellis who was shot dead during the unrest in Croydon, south London, on Monday night.
Ellis, 26, of Brixton Hill, south London, died from the gunshot wound to the head, a post mortem examination found.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "Initial inquiries indicate the victim had travelled to the Croydon area earlier on Monday August 8 in the company of a group of friends.
"It is believed the group became involved in an altercation with a group of approximately nine individuals.
"This altercation culminated in a vehicle pursuit involving three vehicles which commenced in Scarbrook Road, Croydon, passing along the A232 flyover into Duppas Hill Road where the victim was shot."
Detectives are appealing for witnesses to the pursuit involving a dark-coloured estate car and silver hatchback, used by the group of nine, and the dark-coloured hatchback in which Ellis was travelling.
Meanwhile police have arrested two more people in connection with an arson attack in Croydon on the same night.
Scotland Yard detained a 15-year-old boy and a 25-year-old last night on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life following the large fire that destroyed The House of Reeves furniture store.
My colleague Henry McDonald, who is in Birmingham, says "a larger, younger crowd has now gathered" at the site of the earlier vigil in Dudley Road.
He says the police have now sealed off both ends of the road, diverting cars away. "They didn't do this when the vigil was going on. Cars were driving past. But now there is no traffic on Dudley Road."
Meanwhile Riazat Butt says West Midlands Police has released more information on charges and hearings in connection with the unrest in Birmingham.
In a post on Twitter, the force said: "Some of the offenders arrested during the disorder in Birmingham and surrounding areas are being dealt with at a special overnight court this evening.
In a statement the force added that: "Officers from Force CID investigating the serious disorder in Birmingham have now arrested a total of 22 people following a series of warrants carried out at addresses across the West Midlands in connection with property stolen from businesses following the disorder.
"A total of 44 warrants have been carried out and the 22 people have been arrested on suspicion of burglary, robbery and violent disorder.
"Of those arrested, three have been charged, 14 are currently in custody helping with enquiries and the remaining have been bailed under strict conditions while further enquiries take place.
"Officers have also recovered a large amount of property from some of the addresses including items of designer and sportswear worth several thousand pounds, electrical items and a total of £14,000 worth of mobile phones, which they believe to be stolen."
PA has a report on a special sitting of Manchester Magistrates' Court - convened to deal with people who were arrested following the disorder in the city centre.
Three district judges sat in Courts 16, 17 and 18 from about 9pm onwards last night in a bid to deal with 117 defendants in custody.
Matters were being processed in batches of three defendants being brought up from the cells but progress was slow with only six cases held in Court 16 within two hours.
One case dealt with was a 16-year-old boy who admitted trespassing Swarowski jewellers in Manchester city centre with a view to steal.
His mother was in court to hear the teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was caught as he attempted to flee the shop.
Officers on patrol in the area at about 8pm saw the front window smashed and groups of people were running into the shop masked and unmasked.
The youth was apprehended and detained in a storeroom.
It emerged he had decided to come into the centre after he received a BlackBerry message saying "come to town".
There were no reported incidents of public disorder in Liverpool on Wednesday but there were a small number of arrests following stop and searches of youths, according to Merseyside Police.
Fifteen men have already appeared before magistrates in connection with the outbreaks of disorder, PA reports.
A total of 25 men and youths aged between 15 and 42 have been charged with an offence.
Of those, 22 have been charged with breach of the peace, one has been charged with section five public order, another has been charged with possession of a controlled drug and another with theft.
A police spokesman said two others have been released on bail pending further inquiries, Nineteen people remain in custody - including two women - and two have received fines.
All along the Ring Road around Birmingham city centre this morning there are police checkpoints blocking routes into the central shopping zone, Henry McDonald writes.
At least six entry points into the city centre are blocked by traffic cones and a police vehicle as the West Midlands force seeks to prevent any repetition of the damage and looting of previous nights.
We're closing this blog but live coverage of the unrest and its aftermath will continue later this morning.
In the meantime, here's a round-up of tonight's main developments:
• London and other major cities, including Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester, saw no repeat of the mass disorder seen on previous nights. There were a few minor skirmishes but overall the situation across England was much calmer.
• Police have been deployed in force in major cities across England. There were 6,000 police officers deployed in Birmingham.
• Father of a man killed on Tuesday night in Birmingham appealed for calm at a vigil in the city.
• There were brief clashes between police and EDL supporters in Eltham, south-east London.
• Special court hearings have been held in cities affected by disorder with several people arrested over the riots and looting now convicted, including an 11-year-old boy.
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