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Boiling with rage after being ‘kettled’ by cops On Wednesday 1 April, the police "kettled" me and other anti-G20 protesters at the Bank of England. They prevented us from leaving by pushing us violently with batons and shields. I eventually got to the climate camp protest at around 5pm, but at 7pm riot police blocked all exits and forbade anyone from coming in or out of the street – we were "kettled" once more.

The City financial district in the heart of London was brought to a standstill on Wednesday of last week as thousands of protesters converged on the Bank of England to demonstrate against the recession, banks, war and climate change.

Around 200 people gathered outside the Bank of England at lunchtime today to march to Bethnal Green police station to protest at the police tactics on the G20 demonstrations and the media coverage of the protests.

Thousands of anti-capitalist and anti-war protesters converged on London's City financial district today to demonstrate ahead of the G20 summit that starts tomorrow.

The government claims that the G20 summit will cost about £20 million The police operation will cost £7.2 million Labour claims it is a good investment for London Newham is the sixth most deprived local authority in England Some 69 percent of children in Newham are in low income families Some 8,737 people in the borough are on unemployment benefits, with 739 new claims in February

Channel 4’s recent drama based on the events of the English Civil War has just been released on DVD.

The governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, last week admitted that the regulatory mechanisms of the world’s financial systems "all failed to some degree to prevent the accumulation of risks that finally produced the crisis".

There will be a second protest this Saturday against the National Theatre’s play England People Very Nice, which presents a series of crude and racist caricatures of ethnic minorities in London’s East End.

Some 1.3 million local government workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, have received an award of an additional 0.3 percent pay rise, bringing the 2008-9 pay increase to 2.75 percent.

Anti-racist campaigners from London's East End held a vocal protest outside the National Theatre on Friday of last week.

Artists, campaigners and community activists from London’s East End called a protest outside the National Theatre on Friday of this week to demand a right to reply to the play England People Very Nice.

Workers at Kimberly-Clark in Barrow in north west England struck in a fight for more pay last weekend.