Media captionPaul Heaney reports from the protest in Newport city centreAround 250 people have taken part in demonstration in Newport against the Nato summit being held in the city. About 100 spent the night at a peace camp in the city’s Tredegar Park ahead of the planned protest. The numbers are low compared to earlier predictions of many thousands descending on the city. They marched from the city’s cenotaph to the Coldra roundabout near the Celtic Manor Hotel, the main venue for the two-day summit. Image caption Protesters shouted ‘No new wars’ and ‘They say warfare, we say welfare’ as they marched Image caption A cordon of police in riot gear met the protesters at the Celtic Manor Once the march reached the “ring of steel” at the Celtic Manor, they found a group of police in riot gear on the other side of a metal barrier. A delegation of the protesters went to meet Nato officials behind the fence where they handed them a letter and a bouquet of flowers. Protesters started hammering at the wall and fixing placards to it, and throwing small objects to the other side. Despite that, the mood of the march was peaceful and good-natured, according to BBC reporters at the scene and Gwent Police confirmed no arrests were made. In a speech to the protesters, Pippa Bartolotti of the Green Party said: “We don’t need warfare, we need welfare.” Image caption The police stopped all but a few protestors from entering the Celtic…more detail
