BANNED FROM LONDON; Blocked protesters' fury.Byline: CHARLIE BAIN and PAUL BYRNE Paul Byrne, born in Dublin on 19 May 1986, is a footballer, currently playing with Eircom League side UCD. University College Dublin A.F.C. (current squad) DF Bermingham • MF C. FUEL protesters reacted with fury yesterday over a plan to ban lorry-driving demonstrators from entering London. Police will set up an exclusion zone A zone established by a sanctioning body to prohibit specific activities in a specific geographic area. The purpose may be to persuade nations or groups to modify their behavior to meet the desires of the sanctioning body or face continued imposition of sanctions, or use or threat of to prevent truckers bringing the capital to a halt next Tuesday. Angry Andrew Spence, of the People's Fuel Lobby, declared that the move would strengthen the protests. He said: "If that is the way the police want to do it they can, but this is another nail in the coffin of the police state." But the man who led September's fuel protests urged an end to the demonstrations. North Wales North Wales (known in some archaic texts as Northgalis) is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales, bordered to the south by Mid Wales and to the east by England. farmer Brynle Williams Brynle Williams born in Cilcain, North Wales, in 1949, is a member of the National Assembly for Wales in the North Wales region for the Welsh Conservative Party . He was first elected to the Assembly on May 1 2003. pleaded: "Please don't inflict any further pressure on the British public." And Tony Blair Noun 1. Tony Blair - British statesman who became prime minister in 1997 (born in 1953) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Blair said that Chancellor Gordon Brown had this week acted to help motorists and hauliers. The Prime Minister added: I say to the fuel protesters and others - We understand your concerns, we are happy to carry on in dialogue with you, but we have done as much as we responsibly can." A convoy of a mere 30 vehicles began the four-day journey from Newcastle to London in a so-called Jarrow Crusade named after the 1930s hunger march. They crossed the Tyne Bridge
The Tyne Bridge is a bridge over the River Tyne in North East England, linking Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead. on their way to Ferrybridge service station near Leeds. But by the time the dwindling dwin·dle v. dwin·dled, dwin·dling, dwin·dles v.intr. To become gradually less until little remains. v.tr. To cause to dwindle. See Synonyms at decrease. convoy reached there, only 15 lorries were left. Defiant Mr Spence declared, however: "We are not stopping now - no way." Up to 500,000 people had been expected to descend on Hyde Park on Tuesday for a march to Battersea Park. But police are expecting far fewer after yesterday's small turnout. Officers intend to establish checkpoints around London and allow only truckers with business in the capital to continue their journeys. All truck drivers will be forced to show identification and produce papers NOTICE, TO PRODUCE PAPERS, practice, evidence. When it is intended to give secondary evidence of a written instrument or paper, which is in: the possession of the opposite party, it is, in general, requisite to give him notice to produce the same on the trial of the cause, before such to prove they are on legitimate business. Protesters will have to abandon their trucks at the M25 and take public transport to Hyde Park. A further series of checkpoints will be set up within the capital and lorries will be banned completely from an area around Westminster. Met Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens said that the steps were being taken partly because of "very real fears'' that the protest could be exploited by terrorists who might mount a bombing campaign in the run-up to Christmas. CAPTION(S): PROTESTING: A placard waver; ROLLING: Demonstrators cross the Tyne bridge yesterday |
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