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Marchers protested spending cuts at a mass demonstration in Edinburgh on 23rd Oct. Called by the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), vast numbers of trade unions, students, other campaigning groups, political parties, activists, individuals and families turned out for the demonstration. 20000 in all attended the march. There were plenty of musicians on the demo: the march was headed by a pipe band and there were two brass bands and two individual pipers, one accompanied by a percussionist. Masses of people assembled in East Market St, marched the length of the street, turned down the Mound on to Princes St, marched to the far end of Princes Gardens and down the steps back into the park and to the Ross bandstand for a rally. This video covers the middle part of the protest after the demonstration has started marching up East Market St, past North Bridge, the road that leads to Waverley Station, continues up to the mound and onto Princes St and a section of the demo in Princes Gdns. The Westminster government held the final review of their budget 3 days earlier on 20th Oct and as feared the cuts they announced were severe. Smaller demonstrations were also held on that day while the review was taking place, such as the one in Glasgow’s George Square. Those demonstrations, as well as being a protest to Westminster were also a warning to local and Scottish governments not to do the same thing as Westminster. Severe cuts have been frequently made since the 80′s under the …