Students at a school have written their own play inspired by this summer's riots.

The Feral Underclass is a performance devised by Year 13 students at Carshalton Boys Sports College exploring the possible causes and consequences of the riots.

Rosalind Walker, drama teacher at the school, said pupils, drawn from a catchment area in the top five percent of social deprivation nationally, were deeply affected by the scale of rioting in neighbouring Croydon.

She said the teenage pupils at the school, wanted to create something positive through the play from something so negative.