LONDON, Oct 14: Four demonstrators from the anti-capitalist Occupy movement on Sunday chained themselves to the pulpit in London’s St Paul’s cathedral, a year on from the group’s protest camp outside the famous church.

David Ison, the Dean of St Paul’s, said “four young women dressed in white” made their move during his evening prayer.

Cathedral staff told police they were happy to allow the protest but officers remained outside the building to monitor a separate demonstration by Occupy activists.

This group unfurled a large banner reading “throw the money changers out of the temple” on the cathedral steps.

A spokesman for the protest group — which set up a now-dismantled camp outside the cathedral on October 15 last year — said the demonstrators were not planning to move.

Occupy London in a statement said they were working with Christianity Uncut, a group fighting against public spending cuts, to call for the famous church to “stop sitting on the fence and join the fight against rising inequality”.—AFP