A PROTEST has been held in City Park to mark the inauguration of Donald Trump later today.

Members of the city's Racial Justice Network, Migrants Organise and Wur Bradford groups organised the event to mark the day Donald Trump becomes 45th President of the United States.

Banners that had been created in a number of community workshops by people of all ages were draped over The Pavillion cafe at 9am.

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They called for people to build "bridges, not walls" - a response to Trump's pledge to build a wall across the Mexican border with the US, and then force Mexico to pay for it.

The group also sang Simon and Garfunkel classic Bridge Over Troubled Water.

Trump, a property tycoon and former reality TV star, becomes the oldest person to become US President this afternoon.

Social justice activist Penny Wangari-Jones said: "We wanted to show that we are standing against the growing far right.

"We can't get rid of Trump, but I think we are in a time where people will either move to the left or the right.

"We know what he stands for, he is anti-Muslim and anti immigrant.

"The good thing is a lot of people have come together to speak against him. We wanted to hold events like this because you can actually say you were doing something when he became president, rather than just being sat at home swearing at the telly.

"The far right get a lot of coverage, but most people don't think that way.  It is just the rest of us don't always air our views very loudly. Hopefully events like this show where most people stand."

There will be a further protest in Shipley tomorrow. Hundreds of people are expected at the march, starting in Market Square at noon. It will pass the constituency office of Shipley MP Philip Davies, one of the few MPs to have voiced support for Trump during his campaign.

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