Scuffles As Workers Protest Against Cuts
Light bulbs filled with ammonia and paint bombs were thrown in Oxford Street, police said.
On its Twitter account, the Met Police said there had been "two significant incidents of violence towards property and police away from the march".
However, the majority of the demonstration dubbed the "March for the Alternative" was peaceful with organisers claiming up to 500,000 people had walked from Embankment to Hyde Park.
Sky's home affairs correspondent Mark White said that the mall splinter group of protesters tried to get into branches of Topshop, Dorothy Perkins and McDonalds.
"There are a number of police vans down Oxford Street - at the Oxford Circus end - and if you look through some of the other junctions around here there are police arriving all the time to reinforce the area," he said.
White said he had not smelled ammonia, but had seen "paint bombs, smoke bombs and heavier objects" being thrown.
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Light bulbs filled with ammonia and paint bombs were thrown in Oxford Street, police said.
On its Twitter account, the Met Police said there had been "two significant incidents of violence towards property and police away from the march".
However, the majority of the demonstration dubbed the "March for the Alternative" was peaceful with organisers claiming up to 500,000 people had walked from Embankment to Hyde Park.
Sky's home affairs correspondent Mark White said that the mall splinter group of protesters tried to get into branches of Topshop, Dorothy Perkins and McDonalds.
"There are a number of police vans down Oxford Street - at the Oxford Circus end - and if you look through some of the other junctions around here there are police arriving all the time to reinforce the area," he said.
White said he had not smelled ammonia, but had seen "paint bombs, smoke bombs and heavier objects" being thrown.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20110326/tuk-scuffles-as-workers-protest-against-45dbed5.html