Pro and anti-immigration protesters march on coast
BBCNearly 200 protesters, both for and against immigration, have turned out for opposing rallies on the Kent coast.
Members of the Kent Nationalist Movement (KNM) marched along the seafront at Herne Bay in stormy conditions on Saturday.
The group, holding large banners with slogans including 'White Lives Matter', was met by pro-immigration protesters chanting and drumming.
The two groups were kept apart by a large police presence and Kent Police said there were "no reports of disorder and no arrests were made".
"A total of around 180 people attended both events, which saw a large number of specialist officers in the town," a force spokesperson added.
KNM urged its protesters throughout the day via loud hailers not to speak to any journalists in attendance.
However, one man told the BBC he was on the march in solidarity "over the identity of the UK".
The protest's organiser Harry Hilden, who also declined to be interviewed, previously said the march was in opposition to mass migration, saying it "risks turning white Britons into a minority".
Last month, the town's MP, Sir Roger Gale, criticised the planned KNM event, calling upon residents to stay away and "treat it with the contempt it deserves".
One opponent to Saturday's march said she "didn't want Herne Bay to be associated with [anti-immigration sentiment] because it doesn't represent the town".
Another said he was "against what these people stand for, what they are saying and what they are doing to this country".
On its website, KNM calls itself "a grassroots activist pressure group that advocates for the closing of asylum seeker hotels and the prevention of more HMOs housing illegal immigrants being established throughout Kent".
It goes on to describe the county as "the garden of England, not a home for the third world".
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