Protesters gather in Blackpool surrounded by a huge police presence after Southport murders
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00:00Hello, it's Richard Hunt at the Blackpool Gazette.
00:08The protesters have now approached the police standing in front of the Metropole Hotel where
00:14there's a number of asylum seekers.
00:18The police are standing firm, there's no suggestion that the protesters are trying to get through
00:23but they're making their point.
00:36Now they've been gathered here for more than an hour, so it's been a peaceful protest so
00:41far.
00:42The protesters have made their point but there's been no real aggravation.
00:50Now the demonstrators have moved away, moved away from the police, having made their point.
01:10A small group have remained, talking with the police on the line.
01:40Now there is a man there making a protest about the asylum seekers in the hotel that
01:55they're not wanted, so a man with a megaphone.