First time to the Climate Camp march for me. I was stopped and searched twice and stopped 5 times more on the walk from the village to joining the family march. Police were fine to me as an individual BUT I was pretty disgusted by some of their behaviour which was dictated from above: the helicopter overhead in the middle of the speeches, and then on the PA telling the crowd to 'disperse immediately or face force' at 12.50 - that was quite astounding as no request had been made to the crowd to leave before that. Completely unnecessary and antagonistic to a peaceful family march.

I don't see why future attendees should be made to walk through walls of policeman to attend, or indeed leave the march peacefully as we all had to yesterday - disgraceful. Only time I've seen such tactics was in the first anti war demos and they caused bad feeling and were a disaster then.

Did the government purposely choose Yorkshire Police to assist - knowing how sensitive the coal subject is in their history? Unfair on those officers, unfair on the protestors.