tripod, tents and supporters see off 1st eviction attempt

While it is possible that the baliffs could come back today, it seems unlikely - and I should emphasise this is based only my personal experience.

It was around 9am that I recived oinfo that jesters was being evicted by the time I got there around 30 people were already on the ground supporting with numerous others inside and on the flat roof. This included someone up a 12ft high tripod...as well as one cool looking customer in shades sitting on a deck chair next to his tent!

A passing van, decided to park right in front of where they would presumably have initial access !

There was two van loads of baliffs...they looked fairly standard...no climbing gear - and crucially in terms of the tripod - no sign of a cherry picker. This follows a pattern in building (as opposed to tree ) evictions where there is going to be resistance they turn up ready for a normal eviction, and then (after a chat with the one police car which turned up) left with out acting. It's likely that they will turn up, tooled up, possibly with climbing baliffs - most likely at a more unsocialble hour in the next few days. So keep your phone on..and if you can, come and join the people staying in the building