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Report - Mayday 2001 in London
| All day | Hackney
Council Workers on Strike Thousands of workers are striking against cuts. |
| 8am | Critical
Mass Bike Rides Set Off 350 people on Eastern branch, 200 on Western. |
| 10am | Critical
Mass Bike Rides Arrive at King's Cross Animal activists give out free veggie burgers in front of McDonald's. Cyclists blockade road. By 10.40 there are 1000 demonstrators. |
| 12 noon | Around
1000 People from Critical Mass Bike Ride at Euston Station Plaza Police have surrounded entire area, are refusing to let people leave. Police plan to search everyone for weapons before allowing them to leave. |
| 12.45pm | Protest
Against Student Fees Around 100 people protest at Malet St. |
| 12.45pm | Back at
Euston... 150 people still left - police only letting people out through one exit and searching then all as they leave. |
| 12.45pm | Anti-Privatisation
Picnic, Elephant and Castle 300 protesters, including Wombles. Sound system, releaxed atmosphere. |
| 1pm | Protest
at Coutts, the royal bank 100 people. Police prevent late arrivals from joining protest. |
| 2pm | Globalise
Resistance Protest at World Bank Around 1000 people gather and begin moving quickly up Regent Street. |
| 2.20pm | Oxford
Circus Around 2000 people now at Oxford Circus. Police block off area with 20 vans each to North and South. People can't enter the area or leave it. Atmosphere in crowd relaxed. |
| 2.25pm | Lambeth
Bridge Around 400 people from Elephant and Castle event prevented by police from crossing bridge into Central London |
| 3.10pm | Oxford
Circus Police change from ordinary uniforms to riot gear. Tension mounts in crowd. Some arrests in next hour. Large numbers of people around Oxford Circus outside police lines. Emergency ambulances waiting in side streets. |
| 4.30pm | Holles
St, by side of John Lewis 300 people with a samba band march into Holles St, round corner from Oxford Circus. Good humoured crowd. Police form lines at both end of street - people prevented from going into Oxford St, and also from leaving. |
| 5.30pm | West of
Oxford Circus Wombles and around 1000 demonstrators break through police lines. |
| 6.30pm | Oxford
Circus, Holles St Large groups of protesters still trapped in both areas. BBC News 24 reports that atmosphere still generally good, but frustration growing - protesters chant "We Want Out." There has been heavy rain during the afternoon. |
| 7pm | Oxford
Circus, Holles St Crowd at Oxford Circus pushed into centre of area, causing a crush: no-one being released yet. People now being released from Holles St one by one, after being searched and photographed. BBC reports there have been 24 arrests so far. |