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Major UK demonstrations and protests listed: which one was biggest?

   How did the cuts march on Saturday compare to major UK demonstrations
   and protests? See how the numbers - and the official estimates -
   compare
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   Anti-cuts protesters march in London on 26 March 2011
   UK demonstrations and protests listed: Anti-cuts protesters march in
   London on 26 March 2011. How many were there? Photograph: Peter
   Macdiarmid/Getty Images
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   Estimates range from 250,000 to 400,000 - and these figures are always
   controversial. But in the pantheon of major demonstrations going
   through London, the march is near the top.

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   extrapolating that to the whole length of the march. Other times - see
   the Countryside Alliance march of 2002 - protesters are counted as they
   pass a specific point. Either way, teh size of a demonstration can mark
   its success or not. But the reality is, no-one really knows. The 2003
   Stop the War march brought any nubmer from 750,000 to 2m to the streets
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Major UK demonstrations

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