Read More Here: "POLICE have invoked special legal powers to help control and potentially arrest protestors at this weekend's British National Party festival.
More than a thousand anti-BNP activists had at one stage been expected to protest outside Red, White and Blue in Codnor-Denby Lane, Denby, on Saturday.
But Derbyshire police now have Government permission to limit the number of campaigners and their activities using the Public Order Act.
The protest must now involve no more than 700 people meeting at Codnor Market Place at 9am.
From 11.45am, activists will be allowed to march along the A6007 Heanor Road to its junction with Codnor-Denby Lane, where the procession will halt.
A 'designated protest point' will be set up outside the festival for up to 30 anti-BNP protestors between 1 and 4pm.
A police spokesman said: 'The procession will be marshalled and accompanied by police officers.
'If there are more than 700 people and they don't stick to the designated plan we will negotiate the organisers."
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
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