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Pensioner arrested at huge anti-lockdown demo in London for 'attending gathering of more than 30 people'

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Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.Police have arrested a man in his 70s for breaking newly-introduced coronavirus laws, as thousands of anti-lockdown protesters descended on Trafalgar Square in central London.Under new changes to regulations in England, those attending a gathering of more than 30 people may be committing a criminal offence.Officers from the Metropolitan Police handed out letters explaining the legislation to demonstrators as they marched down Whitehall, and encouraged them to disperse.But a spokesperson from the Met later confirmed that a 73-year-old man had been arrested at 3.25pm on suspicion of breaking the new Health Protection Regulations 2020.The.

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