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The police made some arrests on the grounds that people might be considering planning a breach of the peace, without evidence that any crime had beenor was going to becommitted. People were arrested for carrying anti-monarchy placards, for singing protest songs, or even for wearing zombie make-up in a coffee shop.
In Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow, around 6,000 people turned up for an unofficial party. The organisers called for it to end at 5 p.m. When it did not, police moved in to break it up. They later sent in police horses. Twenty-two people were arrested.
The social networking site Facebook deleted around 50 activists sites and pages on Friday, in a move widely suspected of being coordinated with the police.
Police make ?pre-emptive? arrests before Royal wedding