Rev Dr Giles Fraser a Canon at St Pauls resigned today over plans to forcibly remove Occupy London Stock Exchange protesters from outside cathedra.He was seen as a sypathetic ear within the St Paul's establishment and has decided he "could not support the possibility of violence in the name of the church". On the first day of the occupation he confronted the police and moved them off the steps of St Paul's in support of the right to peaceful protest, after a court injunction stopped them from setting up camp in Paternoster Square.

Statement from Occupied London

At the same time is sounds like the catherdral will open to the public again on Friday as the church realised its own stupidity in closing itself down in the first place!

In other discsions about what the state might do about the camp; The new Metropolitan Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe is reported to have said that "under Section 14 of the Public Order Act police could move the protesters outside St Paul's and those gathered in Finsbury Square, if it was decided they were causing "serious" disruption to the public."