Grief mixed with anger yesterday as protesters marked the death of Brian Haw, the campaigner who for a decade resisted police and politicians to maintain his peace camp on the doorstep of the Houses of Parliament.
Mr Haw, 62, whose anti-war placards on the pavement at Parliament Square have become a London landmark, died of lung cancer on Saturday morning. He died in his hospital bed in Germany, where he had been receiving treatment for several months. His family said in a message on his website: "He left us in his sleep and in no pain, after a long, hard fight."
Yesterday in Westminster Mr Haw's supporters rallied to his cause while expressing bitterness towards the authorities. Relations remained strained, meanwhile, in the often fraught tented community that has grown up around a one-man mission. [...]
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