The EDL is planning a demonstration in Middlesbrough later this month :: Around 500 people were involved at last demonstration in 2011
View gallery Gallery: EDL demonstration in Middlesbrough in 2011
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The Gazette reported yesterday how the English Defence League (EDL) is planning to demonstrate in Middlesbrough later this month.
Cleveland Police officers are currently in talks with a number of groups over plans by members from as far afield as London and Scotland to gather in the town on June 28.
About 250 EDL supporters have already confirmed they are attending on Facebook - with organisers saying full details of the demo will be released “at a later date”.
The last time the organisation marched through the town - shown in the gallery above - was in July 2011.
Around 500 EDL supporters took part.
They moved from Gurney Street along Corporation Road, Albert Road, Borough Road before finishing on the grassy area in front of Teesside Crown Court.
In a counter-demonstration, the Unite Against Fascism group marched from the cenotaph by Albert Park along Linthorpe Road and finished at the junction between Binns.
There, a United Colours of Middlesbrough carnival was held, organised by For People Not Profit and the North of England Refugee Service.
Cleveland Police said at the time that one person was arrested for a public order offence as a result of the two demonstrations.
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