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Police powers to randomly stop and search citizens have been declared illegal by the European Court of Human Rights.
Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 enables individuals to be searched "without reasonable suspicion". But the court declared yesterday that this carried "a clear risk of arbitrariness" and was not in accordance with the Human Rights Act.
For The Wharf's gallery of the DSEi arms fair at Excel, click here. Go here for part one
In a two-part online report, The Wharf talks to the people inside and outside the world's largest arms fair.
In part two, we offer a glimpse inside the arms fair itself, and discover an industry increasingly catering for domestic security as well as the military.
For The Wharf's gallery of the arms fair protests, click here
In a two-part online report, The Wharf talks to the people inside and outside the world's largest arms fair.
Part one looks at the protest movement against Excel's DSEi defence show, and how activists have switched targets in a bid to challenge the arms industry.
The Docklands Light Railway suffered problems on Tuesday morning due to a failed train at Island Gardens.
And on the day the Defence Systems & Equipment International exhibition started at Excel, Serco, which maintains the line, said more problems may occur later.
Protest group Disarm DSEi has warned police it "will not negotiate" ahead of its arms fair action next week.
In an open letter to the Metropolitan Police, the group rejected calls for greater communication as it is "not in control of any of the actions undertaken by the participants" in its demonstration.
Exhibitors, delegates and protesters are all making last minute preparations for the arrival of the DSEi fair at Excel.
Clarion Events will host its first fair since taking over from Reed Elsevier last year, and hopes to welcome around 26,000 visitors to the bi-annual defence show.
Climate campers travelled to Canary Wharf this afternoon to launch a protest against Barclays in Churchill Place.
Protesters brought banners - and a football - to One Churchill Place in a bid to "shame" the bank into re-considering its investments in the arms trade and coal power.
A musical protest against the DSEi international arms fair is to be held outside Excel on June 13.
East London Against The Arms Fair is to stage the action between 2pm and 5pm. The group is stepping up their efforts to pressure organiser Clarion Events into cancelling the biannual fair, which will next take place this September.
Arms fair opponents will try to reach runners registering for the London Marathon at Excel this weekend.
As reported by The Wharf earlier this month, East London Against The Arms Fair will stage a musical protest on Saturday against September's DSEi event in Docklands.
Campaigners will hold a musical protest outside the United Arab Emirates embassy as part of their war against Excel's DSEi arms fair.
The protest is directed against the state-owned Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company, who own the Royal Docks venue that has hosted the fair every other year since 2001.
A man-sized missile-wielding infant will take on the arms trade at this weekend's Baby Show.
Campaign Against Arms Trade plans to highlight the organiser Clarion's link to the DSEi arms fair by dressing a member in a nappy and sending them out with heavy weaponry.
Anti-war protesters are to use "irony and humour" in their battle against Baby Show organiser Clarion.
The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) will station members outside the Excel event next weekend to inform visitors that the company also owns the controversial DSEi arms fair, which returns to East London in September.
Santa Claus is coming to town - and he's packing nuclear weapons.
Jolly ol' St Nick visited the Spirit of Christmas fair with a sackful of guns and missiles as part of a protest highlighting organiser Clarion Events' links to a controversial East London arms exhibition.
ANTI-WAR protesters aim to stoke up the pressure on the new owners of ExCeL’s international arms fair.
Campaigners are keen to open talks with Clarion Events after the exhibitions group snapped up the DSEi defence exhibition, which is held every other year at the centre in Royal Docks.
Strong opposition inside and outside the company forced previous owners Reed Elsevier to pledge to sell the fair last year.
DOCKLANDS’ controversial arms fair is still up for grabs.
DSEi organiser Reed Elsevier is still talking to interested parties nearly a year after announcing it wanted to sell the international event, which attracts arms traders and governments from around the world to the ExCeL centre every two years. It had hoped to be able to flog the fair by the end of last year.
A spokesman said: “There’s no question of us not selling. It’s just a timing issue.
“We’re committed to getting the maximum value of the fair for shareholders. We’re talking to
interested parties and we’ll make an announcement in due course, but there’s nothing imminent.�
A CATHOLIC priest jailed after a protest at a Docklands arms fair has vowed to continue his fight to shut it down.
Father Martin Newell spilled “rivers of blood� outside the DSEi international trade event at ExCeL London in September to depict the bloodshed caused by the arms trade.
He poured five litres of red paint onto the gangway, while fellow London Catholic Worker member Zelda Jeffers lay next to the fair’s check-in desk covered in red dye.
Fr Newell was sentenced to five days in jail last week after refusing to pay a fine for criminal damage. Ms Jeffers was sentenced to 14 days on Tuesday (March 25).
He said: “To pay this fine would be to co-operate with a system that is fuelling murder and mayhem around the world by promoting and protecting the arms trade.�
BABY show organisers Clarion Events could soon be mixing bonnets with battleships.
The company, recently acquired by a private equity firm for £125million, is tipped to be among the potential bidders for the DSEi arms fair in Docklands, which has been on the market for around eight months.
Clarion’s portfolio of 65 events and conferences includes the parenting show, which will be arriving at the Royal Docks exhibition centre tomorrow (Friday, February 29).
Current arms fair organiser Reed Elsevier had pledged to offload the controversial exhibition by the end of last year, following pressure from pacifist organisations and healthcare groups.
