TUESDAY APRIL 17 2001
Militants 'plan May Day siege'
BY DANIEL MCGRORY
 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-115717,00.html

VIOLENT activists are planning to occupy an important London building in an attempt to extend the May Day demonstrations into several days of protest, police fear.
Undercover officers are trying to infiltrate radical groups to discover the intended target as organisers are planning a vast series of demonstrations to paralyse the capital.



TUESDAY APRIL 17 2001
May Day mayhem across the board
BY DANIEL MCGRORY
 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-115621,00.html

RINGLEADERS of the May Day protest are playing an intricate game of bluff with police who have vowed to prevent them disrupting London on May 1.



TUESDAY APRIL 17 2001
Revolution? We're here for the beer
The Calthorpe Arms: "They seemed like nice lads"
BY CHRIS BUNTING AND DANIEL MCGRORY
 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-115622,00.html

LUNCHTIME drinkers at a backstreet pub in North London were suprised to find themselves being photographed at the weekend by police using telephoto lenses.
An upstairs room at the Calthorpe Arms in King’s Cross had supposedly been booked by ringleaders of a May Day protest to finalise arrangements for paralysing the capital. But this was no secret rendezvous.



TUESDAY APRIL 17 2001
Foreigners invited to bolster violent 'spikies'
BY DANIEL MCGRORY
 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-115625,00.html

VETERANS of international protests in Washington, Seattle and Prague, as well as those who obstructed a nuclear waste train in Germany, are being invited to foment May Day chaos in London.
The organisers’ strategy is to spread the demonstrations across the capital so that even 5,000 police reinforcements cannot cope if there is a serious outbreak of violence.