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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lydia Patrick

Arrests as police ban hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters from Kings Cross station

Dinendra Haria/LNP

Two people have been arrested after police banned hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters from holding a sit-in at London’s Kings Cross station.

In a rare intervention, Transport Secretary Mark Harper stepped in to give British Transport Police the power to arrest campaigners under the Public Order Act over fears the protest could cause travel chaos.

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