Police in Bristol have asked the organisers of an event being held around the empty plinth of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol city centre to get in touch with them in advance.
The event on Saturday is being billed as a march and is being held in 'celebration of Bristol's diverse activist community', and in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.
The event was originally announced as a counter-protest against a planned demonstration by right-wing political party For Britain. Their leader Anne Marie Waters had called on supporters to gather at the Colston plinth on Saturday to demonstrate against Black Lives Matter and call for the statue of Edward Colston to be restored to the plinth.
