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The NHS pay protest that somehow ended with a pensioner in handcuffs and a £10,000 fine

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direct to your inboxIn 1819, there were an estimated 60,000 people in St Peter's Field when the cavalry was sent in to shut down an anti-poverty demonstration.More than two hundred years later, only a handful of protesters turned up in what is now St Peter's Square, but they also found themselves targeted by the authorities, albeit in very different circumstances.Karen Reissmann, a mental health worker in the NHS and Unison rep, wanted to showcase staff anger over the 1 per cent pay offer revealed by Government this week.After being tested to the limit by the coronavirus pandemic for almost twelve months, health leaders say staff are 'exhausted and distressed' and deserve better.Nurses are threatening to strike.Get the latest updates from.

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