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The Occupy Cardiff group yesterday failed again in their attempts to set up camp in the city and bring the global anti-capitalist protest movement to Wales.

About 30 protestors gathered near the Motorpoint Arena at 11am in a bid to stage another demonstration against banking and big business.

But their planned camp-out on the privately owned green outside the St David’s shopping complex, near the Hooters bar, failed to materialise when police also arrived at the scene.

Instead anti-capitalist protestors held a meeting on the green for several hours to discuss their alternative options for the near future – including a march through Queen Street and occupation of a number of buildings in the capital.

As they formed a circle to discuss the issue, it seemed many of the kinks in the movement’s plans were still being ironed out.

The protesters, who ranged from young students to experienced hands and more elderly activists, firmly argued their views, with some wanting to act immediately and others wishing to wait until they had more numbers.

Their opinions on the press also varied, with some protesters keen to get as much media coverage as possible contrasted by others attempting to block pictures being taken by arguing the event – held in the open air in the middle of Cardiff’s city centre on a busy Saturday – was a “private meeting”.

In response to being photographed, one member took photos of the journalists present to put on the internet.

Posts on the Occupy Cardiff website said protestors were in for the long haul and have appealed for camping equipment .

Protestor Adam Johannes, 31, unemployed, said: “It’s been going OK today. We had a demonstration in front of one of the statues in town and have been meeting to discuss what we are going to do next.”

This latest meeting comes after protestors from the movement were evacuated by police just six hours after setting up a makeshift camp outside Cardiff Castle eight days ago.

Earlier this week the Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, said he would be willing to allow anti-capitalist protesters to shelter overnight in Llandaff Cathedral as long as they did not disrupt the cathedral’s life.

Meanwhile, other camps across the UK continued to make a stand.

Campaigners in the Occupy Bristol movement – the largest UK anti-capitalist protest outside London – were yesterday refusing to be moved by authorities.

Tents, wooden shacks and even a caravan have appeared on the historic College Green in Bristol city centre.

Members of the Occupy Bristol campaign have been camped out in tents for just over a month and have built more permanent structures out of wooden pallets.

The 60-tent encampment is on land owned by Bristol Cathedral but maintained and managed by Bristol City Council.

They have both called on the protesters to pack up and leave peacefully.

The Occupy Bristol group said it was protesting against the unfairness of modern society and has no intention of leaving.

Similar protests are continuing in London where campaigners have occupied an abandoned office block owned by UBS in Hackney. Campaigners say the UBS building, where no business transactions take place, has been renamed as the “Bank of Ideas”.

Occupier Spyro Van Leemnen, 27, from London, said: “It is about reclaiming space. It is symbolic for us because we know so many homes have been repossessed.

“We think it’s completely unfair for the banks to have spaces like this unoccupied and abandoned.

“We occupied to give it back to the public.This is the real big society that David Cameron has failed to achieve.”

Elsewhere, Dame Vivienne Westwood, the international fashion designer, spoke to protestors on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral yesterday about her fear of climate change and the lack of culture in today’s society.