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A massive royal wedding party ended in running battles between revellers and police last night.

Officers were showered with bottles and other missiles in the booze-fuelled riot at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park.

At least three cops were injured and one was taken to hospital with a head injury.

Paramedics treated more than a dozen injuredrevellers, some of whom were caught by flying bottles. There were 21 arrests amid the ugly scenes.

More than 4000 were at the "unofficial" rave-style event, which was organised on Facebook by two teenagers.



Ithad been going well, but many of the party-goers - mainly in theirteens and early 20s - had been drinking heavily and the atmosphereturned ugly by late afternoon.

At 5pm, organisers cut the event short byfour hours and turned off the music. The riot was triggered soon after when a small group of officers tried to split up a series of fights.

Two Record reporters were next to the police as they were targeted by glass bottles and cans of beer.

One female officer was punched in the face, another hit by a bottle and a male officer was left bloodied after being struck with a bottle.

Mounted police charged the rioters and dozens of innocent revellers were caught up in the mayhem.



Cops at the foot of a hill were heavily outnumbered by the bottle-throwing crowd above, and as a group of officers tried to move away to tackle another flashpoint, they were chased by thugs who hurled more bottles.

Two police vans were also attacked.

They were covered in graffiti and had their windows smashed.

More than 100 officers - who were forced to use pepper spray - were eventually drafted in to the park and the mayhem was finally calmed.

Last night, police said they had tried to "facilitate a peaceful event" which had been "good natured" before the violence.

Chief Superintendent Bernard Higgins said: "It's disappointing that on the day of the royal wedding, we witnessed such scenes.

"At one point my officers came under attack and one was taken to hospital suffering from a head injury.

He has been discharged and will make a full recovery. We made a number of arrests and will now study CCTV and make further arrests if appropriate.

"The level of drunkenness was completely unacceptable and irresponsible."

The scenes came after Glasgow City Council warned people not to turn up to the event, organised on Facebook by students John Gardner and Robbie Seath.

The 19-year-olds claimed they were inspired by Prime Minister David Cameron, who said anyone could have a streetparty regardless of council "red tape".

Alex Metrick, a spokesman for theorganisers, last night said: "We agreed with police earlier in the daywe would end the music at 5pm.

"It was a real shame that a minority took part in the attacks on police after the event finished."