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1 reference to local groups, and I do not really know the
2 origins of the campaign apart from what I have heard passed
3 down by kind of history, by word of mouth.
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5 MR. MORRIS: Which one is the second page, sorry?
6 A. Second paragraph.
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is the second page of the notes of 20th
9 September. Mr. Bishop.
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11 MR. MORRIS: Second page, second paragraph; right?
12 A. But certainly I would say that it was my experience
13 from what was reported on at meetings that local groups
14 were far more involved in campaigning against McDonald's
15 than London Greenpeace was. As far as I was aware there
16 was nothing organised by London Greenpeace, or under the
17 London Greenpeace name, throughout the whole of, from the
18 time of the October 1989 anti-McDonald's fayre right
19 through to the World Day of Action on 16th October, whereas
20 local groups around the country, and in particular Hackney
21 and Islington used to be brought up frequently, were
22 organising pickets of McDonald's stores.
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24 The next one I wanted to refer to was page 207H, which
25 is the notes of Michelle Hooker.
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27 MR. MORRIS: What date are those?
28 A. 20th September 1990. She refers to her and Charlie
29 having started the mail out on 18th September and, having
30 read the notes, I do actually remember that being said at a
31 meeting, that they had got it started and got it well
32 underway and then it was a matter of finishing it off at
33 the meeting. It is certainly my recollection the
34 fact sheet that we are being sued over was not going out in
35 the mail out, that there were not any left at this stage,
36 apart from a few copies in the filing cabinet for
37 reference.
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39 Just on the next page, just to confirm about the part
40 where I was getting 4,000 leaflets printed for the picket
41 at the Bank of England. I do not remember exactly how many
42 were being printed, but that sounds quite reasonable. But
43 they were also for the picket of a bank in Wood Green,
44 which is referred to in the paragraph before.
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46 Just a general point about the fayre. I had no
47 involvement in organising the fayre; I had no involvement
48 in organising any of the fayres. I helped out on the day
49 basically because they were short of people, but I did not
50 take any part in organising it. On page 26 of Frances
51 Tiller's notes, 20th September 1990, actually I am not sure
52 what page number these are in the bundle.
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Well, it is page 207B as I have it and it has
55 got the one with a 2, with the 26th at the bottom?
56 A. Yes. The third complete paragraph just that Paul would
57 not be a guest speaker at Hackney and Islington as a
58 representative of the subject group. He would be speaking
59 representing his own views but, obviously, he might say
60 that he was from London Greenpeace because that was the
