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Brightlingsea Animal Exports Protest Diary
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January 10 1995: first news of possible live exports from
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Brightlingsea is met by outrage from residents.
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16: Protesters claim victory as the first lorry is turned back.
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18: Police in full riot gear are deployed. Local people claim
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their actions are "totally over the top".
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February 3: Carla Lane joins Brightlingsea protest.
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11: First shipment of veal calves reaches the port successfully.
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20: Children's demonstration leads to arrest of 13-year-old.
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March 15: Local MP Bernard Jenkin introduces a bill aimed at
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banning live exports, but it is blocked by the government.
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16: 78-year-old protester is arrested for using abusive language.
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22: Billy Bragg attends the demonstration and is nearly arrested.
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April 18: Police invoke 1986 Public Order Act to restrict
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demonstrations. BALE disbands to avoid possible imprisonment for
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organizing the protests. This broadened the issue to include
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civil as well as animal rights.
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20: Paint-filled eggs thrown at police.
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June 13: Mass demonstration marks 100th day of live exports from
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Brightlingsea. 65 people are arrested.
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August 23: Exporter Roger Mills begins proceedings against the
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"Brightlingsea 14"
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September 25: Police Complaints Authority report blames media
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for manipulating images etc rather than police actions for the
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hundreds of complaints about police received during the first week.
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2 October: Police & PCA & police authority presented report at
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community centre. Angry scenes. Derrick Day collapsed, later
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died. (Monday). On Wednesday and Thursday evening, darkness
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protests were violent because protesters were angry about Day
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and report. Windows of lorries, Roger Mills's car and Trading
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Standards officers' car smashed. Following week after violent
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demo Wed & Thurs, on Thurs vandals broke into wharf through 6ft
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wire fence smashed storage shed windows crane windows and cab of
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other crane smashed electricity power supply cutting off
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electricity to half the wharf & sprayed graffiti abusing Mills,
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Ernest Oliver (wharf owner, 74 years old), Markham, Essex Police, &
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Oliver's Daughter. Oliver said since start of protests over 80-90000
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pounds worth of damage at wharf.
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Early October: Mills in court on RSPCA charge of causing suffering to sheep.
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November 4: The exports have stopped from Brightlingsea. The exporter
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is moving his operations to Dover, claiming it's cheaper there. However,
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the protesters claim that this is due to the fact that the lorry drivers
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refuse to come to Brightlingsea any more.
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