I filled in the form on Tayside Police website and on Thursday or Friday a lady contacted me. Asked her questions and wished us well. So on that stregnth we confirmed our booking at the hotel adding one more.
On Sunday afternoon a policeman came on from the Dundee Police sounding quite miffed as he thought we had not contacted them, he said "what is this." I explained I had spoken to a lady from the police station and he mellowed somewhat. He went on to say we would be on private Port Authority land and we would need to get permission. Then I said we would go to the nearest point out of the Port land and he said there were no pavements for us and the Harbour Gate would be the only place.
We have emailed the Dundee Port Manager which the policeman said did not exist. Mr Matt North of the Dundee Port Authority phoned us first thing and explained, that land does not belong to them and that the Dundee council have adopted it. And emailed confirmation to that effect.
In Glasgow we contacted the Glasgow Police, they spoke to us asked all the questions how many etc then wished us well just like the police lady from Dundee did on the first instance. The demo in Glasgow went off with no problem and gave us tremendous media coverage.
Today the demo in Dundee went off well. The police did have a presence of 2 plain clothes and a van recording us all the time. The Community Inspector had a word with me and we assured him we were on a peaceful demonmstration and he was very courteous and accepted us. The demo went off very well with coverage from GMTV, STV, Radio Taymouth i think it was, and other local newspapers and radios which i forgot in the confusion of it all. We have to thank them all for their kindness and coverage.
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