EDL In Bradford.

I'll try and do a full report tomorrow when all the details have emerged. However by all accounts the English Defence League's (EDL) big demonstration in Bradford ended with nothing really happening.

Between 700 and 1000 EDL turned up in Bradford which is much less then the 5000+ that the organisers were hoping for. This small group was penned in by the police near Bradford Cathedral and started chanting incisive political slogans such as "Allah was a paedophile" and "We love the [pakistan] floods". At around 14:30 they tried to break through police lines to attack passers by who'd stopped to have a look at what was going on. During this time bottles, stones and a smoke bomb were thrown. The police responded by donning riot gear, reinforcing the cordon and moving the members of the public away from the EDL.

By around 15:00 the police started to put the EDL on to coaches to remove them from the city. Two groups of around 100 each broke through the police cordon at this time. One group started heading for a local Mosque but were confronted by counter demonstrators who forced them to retreat back into the police cordon. The second group headed for the Forster Square railway station. They soon found themselves underneath a sort of bridge that was occupied by Asian youths who were not pleased to see them. After bottles and other missiles were thrown the EDL group again went and hid behind police lines. The police brought in a special train to evacuate this group from the city. By 17:00 the last of the EDL had left the city on coaches under police escort.

As rumours go round it might heat up overnight but I think in terms of disorder we're talking about a long day at the football rather then a riot.