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The clashes began with a series of tit-for-tat kidnappings and attacks between members of local Sunni Bedouin tribes and Druze armed factions.

The Battle Proms picnic concert and music festival Folk by the Oak take place in Hatfield Park on July 19 and July 20.

BBC director-general Tim Davie had earlier condemned the ‘serious racist term’ the Australian-born presenter was alleged to have used.