Scuffles broke out this evening outside The Chase Hotel in Ross-on-Wye as some protesters tried to stop BNP (British National Party) supporters arriving at a fund-raising event.
Police put one protester in the back of a police van after a man appeared to lash out at a car which arrived for the BNP dinner.
An egg was thrown at another vehicle which arrived at the hotel.
Demonstrators had started to arrive at The Chase Hotel shortly before 5pm and, within minutes, more people came to voice their disapproval at the BNP’s presence.
Many people told Hereford Times reporter Paul Rogers that BNP leader Nick Griffin was at the event.
Jesse Norman and Philippa Roberts, the respective Conservative and Labour parliamentary candidates for Herefordshire and South Herefordshire, were among the 100-strong crowd gathered outside the hotel.
Hereford Times
October 24, 2009
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i was there :)
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