Tim Ireland at Bloggerheads has a detailed article on the Parliament Square demonstrations against the new restrictions on demonstrations in the Designated Area around Parliament Square on the 1st August 2005.
The warning leaflet which was handed out by the Police with a map of the area was quite interesting. It does look like "www.streetmap.co.uk" like, but that is not necessarily the case, as the online version does not zoom out to cover the same area , without switching to an Ordanance Survey style map without strreetnames. It also looks like the slightly larger view (which includes a compass rose) Collins Bartholomew type map which Charing Cross police station sent us by post with Form 3175A. It may well be that the Metropolitan Police are licensed to use this copyrighted map, if not , then they should pay the royalty fees.
The concept of a warning leaflet is similar to the procedures used to enforce an Anti-social Behavior Dispersal Zone, where Police Officers or Communitry Service Support Officers
can tell "groups" of people who might look "threatening" to move out of the Zone and not come back for 24 hours. They first give you a leaflet and then tell you to disperse and then arrest you if you do not comply.
Some other independent accounts and photos (and here and also here) have been posted to Indymedia, of some of the people who were arrested. It still seems to be unclear how many were arrested under the provisions of the new law. Does anyone have any details ?
Some other blogs which cover this demonstration: