Police advice on pro-hunt demonstrators

Is this BBC report correct?

Over the past 10 days, Mr Michael had to cancel two official events after police warnings protests might turn violent.

We have already seen that this excuse has been used by the minister before when in fact the police had issued no such warnings:

The Countryside Alliance has today condemned Alun Michael MP for misrepresenting police advice. Mr Michael stated that Lancashire police had advised him that the right to roam launch last weekend might turn violent. This has been categorically denied by the force in an e-mail to the Countryside Alliance.

I'm guessing that this is a case of the BBC not keeping up.

Posted by John at September 28, 2004 12:10 PM | TrackBack