Some of us met at BP Service Station at the A1/A14 roundabout around 12.00 p.m. The police had blocked both the A1 main entrance to HLS and also the A1 Alconbury entrance further up, so the only access to the place was from the A14 Woolley turn off. Both gates had been blocked off, so after much shouting outside the front fence which had been labelled ANIMAL AUSCHWITZ in huge letters that someone must have spent hours preparing and some inspiring speeches, accompanied by the dance music from the sound system on the back of a lorry, we made out way across the fields around the perimeter fences.

There was the usual Cambridge Constabulary, much fluffier than Thames Valley at Hillgrove, but just as dumb and incompetent , the mounted riot cops were there and the helicopter, which flew unusually low I thought, but there were nowhere near enough of them to control us and by going all the way round the perimeter fences, we spread them and HLS Security out sufficiently to enable certain bits of fence to crumble mysteriously and some adventure seeking protesters to get onto the site and make mad dashes towards the buildings. Many people were arrested, around 50 I heard, {nb: number arresed later revised to 14 - ed.} until there were no more Custody Vans left to take them to police stations and then people were just asked leave the premises. I heard that 2 people managed to get to the roof of one of the buildings and avoid arrest and stage a protest there for the rest of the day. Not sure if they're still there or not :-)

Our black uniforms and skull masks, very effective I thought, became grey with mud from ditches, torn by barbed wire fences and soaked as the journey around the perimeter turned into an army style assault course, but as usual there were plenty of supportive protesters helping us feeble scaredy cats to balance their way across log bridges etc.... You're FANTASTIC people! - you have no idea how much I love you all to bits! :-)

When we eventually made out way out back on to the forbidden A1, soaking wet and muddy, but still smiling and cheering on those who'd survived the police, dogs security guards and arrest and were somewhere on the premies, we started marching towards Huntingdon. Some of us were blocked at the BP Service Station roundabout by the charging mounted cops and had to walk back to HLS where all the Skull Masks were left tied to the front fence, but I heard some made it through to McDonalds and made it known that there were a few Animal Rights demonstrators in the area :-) Extent of damage unknown I'm afraid.

There was peaceful home visit later in the day - again not sure where or who to, perhaps somebody else could fill us in?

I had to go and pick of a friend who'd been arrested for the heinous crime of not getting out of a ditch fast enough after the police commanded her to! She's due in court Wednesday and expects to be fined. I believe she's pleading guilty as she has a flight out of UK later that week and can't afford to miss it, but if it weren't for her, I'd still be in that bloody ditch - she'd only gone back in apparently to witness an unnecessarily brutal arrest of another female protester who was being pinned to the ground - I guess her service as a witness was not welcome!

Well that's all I know. I think it was a really worthwhile demo. It made the BBC Local News twice earlier in the day, not sure about later. We must have cost thousands in policing and although I know as somebody mentioned in a speech that it's not the big peaceful demos that close these hideous places down, I do think the whole vision of so many of us wanting and feeling the same hate of the place is an inspiration to go away and do other stuff.