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     1        transport and the weather was simply too severe.
     2
     3   Q.   Do you remember whether or not there was any report back at
     4        a later meeting about the picket or whether or not the
     5        picket had taken place?
     6        A.  Yes, I think it was reported the next week and there
     7        was, I think, someone in the group at the time who had a
     8        vehicle who tried to get there, he said.  He was the only
     9        one to make an effort and he said that he did not manage
    10        it.
    11
    12   MR. RAMPTON:  Well, my Lord, again I am afraid that is hearsay.
    13        Mr. Gravett can say that he did not go on any picket that
    14        year, but that is as far as, I am afraid, it can go.
    15
    16   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    17
    18   MS. STEEL:  You did the leaflet for this picket?
    19        A.   Yes.
    20
    21   Q.   Did you intend to go on the picket?
    22        A.   Yes, I intended to, yes.
    23
    24   Q.   Just to make it absolutely clear, did you go on the picket?
    25        A.   No, no, no, and no one else I heard ever said that
    26        they did.
    27
    28   Q.   Right.
    29        A.   No one has ever said to me that they ever went on that
    30        picket.
    31
    32   Q.   Can you turn to tab 24.
    33
    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I would like you to just pause for a moment,
    35        if you would.
    36
    37   MS. STEEL:  Sorry.  This is a press release in 1988 about
    38        October 16th World Day of Action?
    39        A.  Yes.
    40
    41   Q.   And it says that it was falling on a Sunday that year.  Do
    42        you know whether or not there was a picket organised by
    43        London Greenpeace for World Day 1988?
    44        A.   No, to the best of my knowledge there was not a picket
    45        at the head office that year.
    46
    47   Q.   Would you have known if there had been a London Greenpeace
    48        picket?
    49        A.   Yes, of course, I would, because I was the organiser
    50        of the pickets that year and we -- it fell on a Sunday, I
    51        seem to remember, and so the head office would not have
    52        even been open, and we just did the usual west end
    53        branches, Oxford Street, Tottenham Court Road.
    54
    55   Q.   Right.  So there was pickets of west end branches of
    56        McDonald's?
    57        A.   Yes.
    58
    59   Q.   If you can go to tab 47 please.
    60        A.   Yes.

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