Noel Gallagher has said he believes "brutal TV and videogames" are partly to blame for the riots that have taken place this week.

The former Oasis mainman, whose brother Liam is estimated to have had £270,000 worth of clothes looted from his shop in Manchester during the riots, has called for more prisons to built in order to cope with the newly imprisoned rioters and told Bang Showbiz that he cannot "understand where the energy for the riots is coming from".

He said: I can't understand where their energy for these riots is coming from. We live in this age of violence - and I don't care what other people say: Brutal TV and brutal videogames are a reason for this pointless violence as well. The people are immune to violence, they are used to it. And if they get caught they aren't punished the right way. The prisons are already full? Then build new ones!