DAMIEN HENDERSON

PROTESTERS hoping to march past the G8 meeting of world leaders at the Gleneagles Hotel reacted furiously yesterday at police plans to bar access to the event.

Tayside Police disclosed traffic plans which include roadblocks in place during the three-day meeting, preventing public access within several miles of the Perthshire venue.

Among those who will be turned away are up to 30,000 demonstrators who had planned to march past the hotel. Public causeways crossing the resort's golf courses, where anarchist groups planned to dig up turf as part of a "people's golf tournament", will also be barred.

G8 Alternatives, a collection of human rights activists, politicians and demonstrators, which is organising the march on July 6, branded the plans a "disaster for democracy".

Aamer Anwar, the human rights lawyer, said: "At the end of the day, there will be several thousand police officers here at Gleneagles, a ring of steel. If they have that, why not give the people the right to march?"

Emergency services yesterday practised dealing with a terrorism attack. Police, ambulance crews and firefighters took over Murrayfield stadium in Edinburgh for a mock poison gas attack scenario.

PROTESTERS hoping to march past the G8 meeting of world leaders at the Gleneagles Hotel reacted furiously yesterday at police plans to bar access to the event.

Tayside Police disclosed traffic plans which include roadblocks in place during the three-day meeting, preventing public access within several miles of the Perthshire venue.

Among those who will be turned away are up to 30,000 demonstrators who had planned to march past the hotel. Public causeways crossing the resort's golf courses, where anarchist groups planned to dig up turf as part of a "people's golf tournament", will also be barred.

G8 Alternatives, a collection of human rights activists, politicians and demonstrators, which is organising the march on July 6, branded the plans a "disaster for democracy".

Aamer Anwar, the human rights lawyer, said: "At the end of the day, there will be several thousand police officers here at Gleneagles, a ring of steel. If they have that, why not give the people the right to march?"

Emergency services yesterday practised dealing with a terrorism attack. Police, ambulance crews and firefighters took over Murrayfield stadium in Edinburgh for a mock poison gas attack scenario.

PROTESTERS hoping to march past the G8 meeting of world leaders at the Gleneagles Hotel reacted furiously yesterday at police plans to bar access to the event.

Tayside Police disclosed traffic plans which include roadblocks in place during the three-day meeting, preventing public access within several miles of the Perthshire venue.

Among those who will be turned away are up to 30,000 demonstrators who had planned to march past the hotel. Public causeways crossing the resort's golf courses, where anarchist groups planned to dig up turf as part of a "people's golf tournament", will also be barred.

G8 Alternatives, a collection of human rights activists, politicians and demonstrators, which is organising the march on July 6, branded the plans a "disaster for democracy".

Aamer Anwar, the human rights lawyer, said: "At the end of the day, there will be several thousand police officers here at Gleneagles, a ring of steel. If they have that, why not give the people the right to march?"

Emergency services yesterday practised dealing with a terrorism attack. Police, ambulance crews and firefighters took over Murrayfield stadium in Edinburgh for a mock poison gas attack scenario.