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Occupy London protest camp given eviction notice
Nov 16, 2011, 14:54 GMT
London - Anti-capitalist protestors who have squatted in tents outside St Paul's Cathedral in London for a month were Wednesday told to clear the camp.
An eviction notice issued by the City of London Corporation said tents pitched on the public highway around the cathedral should be cleared by Thursday evening.
If that was not the case, legal action for their removal would be launched at the High Court.
The move by the City of London authorities, which own some of the land around the cathedral, came just 24 hours after police in New York cleared the Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti Park.
Protestors of the Occupy London group settled outside the cathedral on October 15, during worldwide demonstrations to back the movement which was launched in New York.
St Paul's Cathedral, which initially allowed the protestors to stay, has been thrown into turmoil over the camp. Two of its senior clergymen resigned in the process.
The church said Wednesday it 'recognized the right' of the City of London authorities to proceed with the action.
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