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Canary Wharf Group has won a High Court injunction preventing protesters from setting up camp on the estate.

With St Paul's and Finsbury Square full of anti-capitalist "Occupy" protesters, social media sites had come alive with chatter about targeting the home of Barclays, HSBC and other major banks.

Around a dozen protesters were in Canary Wharf last night to, "dance on the grave of capitalism."

Dressed in ghoulish costumes the street theatre anti-capitalists travelled from an earlier protest at the Occupy London camp at St Pauls.

The anti-capitalist protests in The City spilled into Canary Wharf this morning when a group of activists held a small rally in Reuters Plaza.

Around 50 campaigners turned out to listen to speeches from economists and to try and engage with the banking community in the Wharf about the economic problems faced by society.

A rally against the culling of monk parakeets on the Isle of Dogs drew a "disappointing" crowd but organisers are determined to continue their campaign.

Around 35 people attended the rally in Millwall Park last Sunday to try and stop the cull of the birds by the Department for the Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra).

Protesters returned to the Excel Centre to campaign against the arms fair this week.

The controversial Defence and Securities Equipment (DSEi) event opened at the Royal Docks exhibition centre on Tuesday when delegates of states from all over the world arrived to look at the latest weapons technology.

The English Defence League march planned for September 3 in Tower Hamlets will not go ahead after the Metropolitan Police obtained a prohibition order.

The Home Secretary granted the police application to prohibit protest marches for 30 days from next Friday.

A protest rally against the culling of monk parakeets is set to take place on the Isle of Dogs with residents declaring they "mean business".

The rally in Millwall Park on September 18 comes as the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) plans to deploy marksmen to shoot the birds.

Philosophy students past and present have staged a sit in and are refusing to leave a Greenwich University building until their demands are met.

The group who are protesting against a proposal to axe BA Philosophy from the university programme have been holed up inside the School of Humanities and Social Sciences since yesterday afternoon and have run out of food.

Students past and present hoping to save their Philosophy course are protesting outside the Dean's office at Greenwich University this afternoon (April 15).

The group learnt last month that the Humanities department had stopped recruiting for BA Philosophy degree and those with a place for 2011 were being offered alternative study combinations.

A shrimp fisherwoman covered in chocolate syrup to replicate the oil spilt in the Gulf of Mexico was arrested outside BP's annual general meeting at Excel this morning.

Diane Wilson from the US Gulf Coast was removed from the building's foyer by police and arrested on suspicion of breaching the peace.

"It was always planned to be a peaceful protest and if it had turned violent I would have left," said one of the activists in Canary Wharf on Tuesday evening.

Up to 80 protesters converged on the estate to largely chant at buildings and the shadows creeping down stairs inside them.

The group which occupied Fortnam and Mason in last week's demonstrations in central London are planning a protest at Canary Wharf on Tuesday.

Members of UK Uncut are organising a 'tour' of firms including Barclays, HSBC, Bank of America, Citigroup and Allen and Overy.

Students with a place to study Philosophy at Greenwich University are going to have to think again after their course was ear marked for closure.

A senior staff member said a recommendation has been made to close down the the BA Philosophy course with "immediate effect."

Members of the University and College Union took strike action across the UK today to protest at changes to pensions and pay cuts.

Staff from Tower Hamlets College, Greenwich University and University of East London took to picket lines over what they believe to be unfair increases in their pension contributions and moves to raise the retirement age.

Campaigners turned out in force at City Hall today in their fight to save King Edward VII Memorial Park from proposed work on the Thames Water 'super sewer' tunnel.

London Assembly member John Biggs, Poplar and Limehouse MP Jim Fitzpatrick and comedian and local resident Lee Hurst joined protesters to hand in 3,500 signatures to the London Assembly against proposals for the Thames Tideway Tunnel that they fear will ruin their only local park.

The independent mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, has secured agreement on his first budget.

At a second meeting on Tuesday night, the mayor accepted some of the changes offered by his former Labour colleagues in order to secure an agreement.

Plans to regenerate Greenwich Market that sparked public protest have been given the go-ahead.

The market's owner, Greenwich Hospital, was last week granted approval by the Inspector for Communities and Local Government to build a boutique hotel and shops at the historic site.

Workers at Billingsgate Fish Market staged a demonstration on Tuesday as part of a protest against planned changes they believe will destroy its reputation.

Market porters are trying to protect their historic role and were backed by MP Jim Fitzpatrick, whose Poplar & Limehouse constituency includes Billingsgate, along with London Assembly member John Biggs and ex-London Mayor Ken Livingstone.

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.

By Wharf Reporters

After months of hype, weeks of preparation and acres of newsprint, the G20 summit has almost arrived at Excel.

As world leaders gathered in London, many Wharfers went about their business, albeit in casual clothing, while some were advised to work from home.