Actions took place across London. In Camden, HSBC, Nat West and Barclays banks were closed, Andrew Lansley was put on trial and HSBC was hit by a 'die-in'. An emergency operating theatre was set up inside Lloyds in Wood Green, while the Angel Islington branch of RBS was turned into a drop-in surgery for people worried about the effect of cuts on their health, and a new hospital ward was opened in the Brixton branch of Nat West.

In Bristol, Barclays and Nat West were visited by surgeons scrubbed up and ready for action in theatre, along with patients covered in bandages and fake blood.

After a parade through the Grand Arcade in Cambridge, another bunch of surgeons and suchlike shut down Nat West, before moving on to Lloyds and Barclays, where they were joined by the Love Police, finishing off with visits to the Halifax and Vodaphone.

A Big Society hospital was opened at the Cornmarket in Oxford, with several disastrous operations carried out in the streets by untrained - but cheap - volunteer surgeons. Later, nearby banks were occupied.

In Manchester, Santander was peacefully occupied and nine people arrested on the unlikely grounds of 'preventing a breach of the peace'. (Maybe this is what happens back at the station if the cops don't meet their arrest targets). Arrestees reported that they hadn't been given the option to leave the protest before being arrested and all were later released without charge.

Fitwatch reported on arrests for Breach of the Peace in Manchester and threats of arrest elsewhere, commenting on the consternation of one sergeant on discovering that the activists had legal observers and knew their rights. How inconvenient. Plainclothes FIT evidence gatherers in Cardiff, who introduced themselves by name and number, used their 'Blackberries' to take photos of the protesters for the 'intelligence log'.

In Liverpool, Nat West was occupied by hospital staff and patients for over an hour before the protest moved on to close down two Vodaphone shops, a branch of HSBC and Phones4U, encountering some violence from security guards along the way.

Actions in Edinburgh at Boots, BHS and Vodaphone led to two violent arrests when the cops suddenly decided to pounce on two women during the BHS occupation. Both were held for five hours before being charged with Breach of the Peace (which is a different offence from the England and Wales version) and, to add insult to injury, the woman who had apparently been injured when arrested by PCA4636 was charged with Resisting Arrest.

Nat West, Barclays, Topshop and Vodaphone were shut down in Leeds during 'political parties' organised by Funk the Cuts, a group which aims to harness party energy to fight the cuts.

In Nottingham, a group of anarchists took an appetising 'Eat the Rich' banner to the UK Uncut demo and handed out hundreds of leaflets: 'We think there’s only one choice now. Eat the rich. Eat away at their power by working together, building communities, and learning to look after each other. Eat away at their control over us by striking, occupying, stealing, destroying everything they ever claimed as their own.'