However, the difficulties that still lie ahead were underlined by a noisy demonstration outside the castle by up to 300 protesters.

She once cleared a noisy demonstration from outside her husband's constituency office by suggesting - without revealing her identity - that they march through the town to gather support.

One day there was a noisy demonstration outside his weekly surgery.

His volte-face last week after noisy demonstrations by schoolchildren exposed him to ridicule as well as baffling his supporters.

The strongest protesters of such irregular emigration movements are the ecofeminists who tend to gather once a month to hold non-peaceful and noisy demonstrations.