Two anti-cuts protestors, Nicolas Christian and Jane Laporte, are celebrating as the case against them was dismissed. They had been accused of assaulting a police officer at a Haringey Civic Centre protest in February.

The protest had been called by Haringey Alliance for Public Services in opposition to the council’s proposed £41m cuts to local services, including the closure of three residential homes and four day centres for older people, a 75-per-cent cut in the Youth Services budget, and a 50-per-cent cut to the Parks maintenance budget.

Judge Tempia, sitting at Enfield Magistrates’ Court (in Tottenham), ruled that police officers from the Territorial Support Group were not acting within their duty and used unlawful force in removing the defendants, along with other anti-cuts protestors, out of the building.

Haringey residents and workers march through the borough to defend vital local public services
- and to support the national public sector mass strikes on Thursday June 30th

Haringey Alliance for Public Services held a lively and powerful demonstration on Saturday June 25th to oppose public service cuts. Over 250 local residents and workers marched from the Haringey Civic Centre in Wood Green, via Turnpike Lane and Seven Sisters, to Tottenham Town Hall. A wide range of community and trade union organisations attended with their own banners and placards, with a particularly large contingent of parents and children from Children's Centres. Marchers stopped on the route for speeches and a chorus of noise outside many key sites which are under threat of closure. The march finished with a rally and speeches outside Tottenham Town Hall.