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How can a town beat the extremists?

How Tommy Robinson鈥檚 hometown hit the headlines.

In March 2009, an Islamic extremist group called Al-Muhajiroun staged a demonstration as 200 soldiers paraded through the town of Luton after returning from Iraq. The radical Islamists fuelled anger in the local community, and these tensions led to the formation of the English Defence League by Stephen Yaxley-Lennon - aka Tommy Robinson. Ten years on, we speak to the people who were there as Luton faced a global media storm and find out how they have been working to beat extremism ever since.

Producer: Georgia Coan
Editor: Philly Beaumont
Mixed by Nico Raufast

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