The police numbers went up this afternoon and they began stopping people in cars entering the aldi supermarket car park to access the venue for the festie party, even demanding the keys to a vehicle off one person.

They also tried stopping people on foot until quite a number of people were waiting, while at the same time trying to get the building ruled as unsafe - they failed in this attempt and they moved aside to let people through.

Apparently they are now saying that a council official will serve a noise abatement order (though doesn't that have to be _after_ noise has been made? - i dunno)

Anyway, the reclaimed space is amazing, has been decked out very nicely and is looking great with exhibitions all over the place and workshops running in several of the rooms.

See  http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=40618 for the line up tonight...