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by Pete Riches
Several thousand NHS staff, trade union members and anti-NHS privatisation campaigners marched from the South Bank to Downing Street to protest against the coalition government's swingeing cuts to London's hospitals, A&E depts and maternity wards.
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by Pete Riches
Welfare and disability rights activists conducted a vigil outside the High Court as proceedings brought by ten claimants challenging the controversial 'Under-Occupancy Penalty' - nicknamed the 'Bedroom Tax' - began.
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by Pete Riches
Several hundred activists representing a loose coalition of anti-austerity groups, including Anonymous and Occupy, assembled at Trafalgar Square before marching on Parliament.
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by Pete Riches
Disability rights campaigners were crestfallen but not deterred at the High Courts as they received news that a judge had thrown out their claim that the DWP's consultation method used to justify the closing of the Independent Living Fund was illegal
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by Pete Riches
Members of the public and a small group of protesters watched as a gun carriage carrying the flag-draped coffin of Margaret Thatcher travelled along Fleet Street to St Pauls Cathedral.
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by Pete Riches
Around 200 UK Uncut and Occupy London activists met at Kings Cross station before travelling to Highgate to hold a 'Bedroom Tax' protest and eviction-themed street party at the London residence of Welfare Reform Bill architect Lord Freud.
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by Pete Riches
Hundreds of anti-Bedroom Tax campaigners assembled in Trafalgar Square then marched down Whitehall to Downing Street to literally give David Cameron the shirts off their backs.
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by Pete Riches
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered (LGBT) activists held a vigil outside the Daily Mail offices in protest against journalist Richard Littlejohn's writings about gender reassignment school teacher Lucy Meadows, who committed suicide.
