A crew of 5 people were on gate duty early this morning when the peace was shattered when a police van tried to aggressively drive through the main gate to raid the site at 5am. A handful of us got in the way and managed to secure the gate as around 20 police jumped out with the intention of coming on site.
Obviously, that wasn't acceptable when many campers were asleep. Nonetheless, many campers soon arrived and linked arms at the gate along with using the wheelie bins to shut off access. There was a fair amount of scuffling and the police liaison arrived quickly and relative calm returned. We were told of trouble on the other gate and kept up to date by campers. They also made us plenty of tea!
We had to wait there for three hours before the police finally retreated to just outside the gate. We sung to them and read passages from the programme - they didn't look happy but at least the main gate is now secured. More help needed though...
Obviously, that wasn't acceptable when many campers were asleep. Nonetheless, many campers soon arrived and linked arms at the gate along with using the wheelie bins to shut off access. There was a fair amount of scuffling and the police liaison arrived quickly and relative calm returned. We were told of trouble on the other gate and kept up to date by campers. They also made us plenty of tea!
We had to wait there for three hours before the police finally retreated to just outside the gate. We sung to them and read passages from the programme - they didn't look happy but at least the main gate is now secured. More help needed though...
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04.08.2008 09:44
Hope it all gets sorted so we can ge back to getting things ready for Saturday!
Be with you tomorrow.