St Paul's demo faces new legal move

The City of London Corporation has relaunched legal action against the anti-capitalist protesters camped outside St Paul’s Cathedral.

The corporation previously offered to give the protesters until the new year to leave the site.

Stuart Fraser, policy chairman at the corporation, said: “We paused legal action for two weeks for talks with those in the camp on how to shrink the extent of the tents and to set a departure date – but got nowhere.

“So, sadly, now they have rejected a reasonable offer to let them stay until the new year, it’s got to be the courts.

“We’d still like to sort this without court action but from now on we will have to have any talks in parallel with court action – not instead.”

Earlier today, Occupy Wall Street protesters in a New York park were ordered to leave their encampment because officials said it had become unsanitary and hazardous.

At about 1am local time, police handed out notices from the owner of Zuccotti Park, Brookfield Office Properties, and the city saying that the park had to be cleared.

Protestors in Ireland with Occupy Dame Street have said they will camp outside the American Embassy in Dublin this afternoon in "a show of solidarity" with the Occupy Wall Street protestors.