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     1        remember it, "because it would have surprised me, because I
     2        knew you had been long enough in the group to know that we
     3        did not hand out fact sheets on demonstrations.  I would
     4        have gone up to you and asked you why you were doing it."
     5        So, I think that is worth bearing in mind, the fact that it
     6        had been a longstanding practice of the group and would
     7        have made it something unusual if it was going on,
     8        therefore it would have been noticed by people that were
     9        involved with the group in any way.
    10
    11        The other thing that is relevant is that on day 272,
    12        page 35, Mr. Gravett referred to the Big Mac attack
    13        leaflet, which was in tab 47 of pink one A, I think.  He
    14        said that it had been written for the 1989 mail-out and
    15        that it said 'Do not request large quantities of the fact
    16        sheet as we do not have many ourselves'.  And Mr. Gravett
    17        said that this was true, that there weren't many copies of
    18        the fact sheet.  That was page 36, line 1.
    19
    20        I would just point out that it is therefore hardly likely
    21        that it would be being distributed at the head office
    22        picket if there weren't many copies left, because if
    23        Mr. Gravett did not bring them in and other people were not
    24        able to obtain large quantities of the fact sheet, I think
    25        it refers to two or three you could get at most or
    26        something like that, but if other people could not get the
    27        copies of the fact sheet in bulk either, then they are
    28        hardly going to be bringing them along to the picket of the
    29        head office, and that if there were any fact sheets there
    30        it would be the Veggies ones which were available in bulk
    31        from Veggies and always have been advertised in that
    32        manner, which we did hear evidence on in relation to that
    33        from Mr. Smith.
    34
    35        Just to briefly cover a couple of other points from
    36        Mr. Gravett's evidence, that on day 272, page 33, line 50,
    37        he referred to the leaflet in tab 18, pink 1A, which said
    38        that the picket of McDonald's head office on 16th October
    39        1987 was to be from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., and Mr. Gravett's
    40        evidence was that to the best of his knowledge there was no
    41        picket on that date because nobody could get there.  It was
    42        the day of the hurricane -- early in the morning there was
    43        no transport.  That he certainly had not gone there and
    44        that he had attended other pickets on 16th October in
    45        central London and that nobody had reported having attended
    46        the head office pickets.  So he did not believe it was
    47        likely it took place.
    48
    49        Now, Mr. Rampton tried to...  I mean, obviously, in theory
    50        that is hearsay, but in reality it is actually evidence 
    51        that you can take notice of, because bearing in mind that 
    52        this was a picket to be organised by London Greenpeace, if 
    53        there had been a picket it would have been reported on at a
    54        London Greenpeace meeting.  So the fact that it was not
    55        reported at the meeting, and that people said that they had
    56        not been able to get there, is a strong indication that
    57        there was no London Greenpeace picket on that day.
    58        Obviously, it does not mean that some other complete
    59        strangers could not have turned up, but that was not the
    60        evidence of Mr. Nicholson.  He said that it was a London

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