By Joanne Hughes BBC News Online

Home to more than 14,000 people, Caia Park has been the centre of much media interest since Sunday when clashes broke out between Iraqi Kurds and local people.

There was a large police presence on Tuesday

In the last decade, community leaders have worked hard to rejuvenate the area.

Money has been invested to introduce play schemes for local children and mothers have been encouraged to go back to work.

The estate's name was even changed from Queen's Park - synonymous throughout Wrexham as being a troubled estate - to Caia Park.

A fresh name for a fresh start.

I wondered about how much these disturbances will have damaged attempts to reinvent the estate

What started off as an isolated incident on Sunday turned into a free- for-all on Monday.

On Tuesday, more than 100 police officers were drafted in, keen to restore calm.

During the height of the dispute on Sunday the Red Dragon pub on Prince Charles Road was smashed up and a number of arrests were made.

You can't even walk the streets Caia Park youth

On Monday an angry mob - some, according to police, members of the Wrexham Front Line who follow the town's football team, gathered outside their former drinking hole in a stand-off with police in riot gear.

Some witnesses claimed that children as young as 10 took threw petrol bombs at the line of officers before them.

Police activity

Twenty four hours later and police were determined to have a heavy presence on the estate.

Local youths hanging around the streets of Caia Park were outnumbered and outflanked by police officers who marched them out of the area.

Vehicles weaved their way slowly through the estate, their occupants trying to get a glimpse of further trouble.

Some of those trying to get a better look were stopped and searched before being moved on by police.

"You can't even walk the streets," one youth complained to me.

Later that evening, at around 2130BST, around 40 police descended on the Queensway Club, a social bar in the middle of the Caia Park estate.

Drinkers were ordered to leave the venue and officers marched them off the estate.

The procession some with dogs, snaked their way from the estate in a bid to break up any gangs or crowds.

Caia Park residents watched the police activity

Residents hung out of their windows trying to see if there would be further activity, neighbours were in their front gardens to keep an eye on proceedings.

North Wales Police admitted Sunday's disorder was "racially motivated".

When hundreds of people arrived in Caia Park on Monday the force played down the racial element saying it was more about "criminality".

However, I grew up on the outskirts of Wrexham and during these last three days on the estate I certainly witnessed racist behaviour for the first time.

Refugee system

I heard people on the estate demanding police "get the Iraqis out".

"Saddam Hussein's gone now, they should go back to Iraq," said one woman who did not wish to be named.

Many of the refugees have fled the estate and asked for temporary accommodation.

Community leaders agree that immediate action is now required to dispel the myths and rumours being discussed around the estate.

Confusion over the refugee system and fear of the unknown has played its part in the tension on the estate which has bubbled over to boiling point in the heat of the summer.