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Yes, who wants all those football hooligans, loose on the roads on a Sunday afternoon?

Last time it was along the seafront, to Madeira Drive. Besides, taking photographs in the street, is not a crime. How many tourists are taking photos every day? If the public are going to get jittery over every person taking photos of something, the police are going to be inundated. Terrorism...

Absolutely. I'm amazed at how many people don't know their civil rights.

The route of the open top bus parade hasn't been published yet, so how do you know that it's going to be at Hove Town hall?

Police have to abide by rules themselves and cannot just stop and question people, without reasonable suspicion. Read the article. http://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2017/05/04/sussex-police-detain-bbc-cameraman-under-anti-terror-law-for-taking-photo-of-hove-town-hall/

So if a woman (not the police) comes up to you in the street, asks your name and address, you would give it without hesitation?

The civilian called the police. The photographer had professional equipment with him, that would show him to be a professional. Have you read the article? This photographer actually takes photos for the police and is known by lots of them. It was heavy handed harassment.

Terrorists are hardly likely to bring attention to themselves. He did answer the question to the civilian who asked him. Mr Mitchell said: “I wasn’t challenged by a police officer. I was asked what I was doing. I said I was a photographer taking pictures of the town hall, simple.”

He is a professional doing his job, and was challenged by a civilian. She had no right to ask him anything, but she decided to call the police. The police do not have the right to ask for your name and address either unless they have reasonable grounds to suspect you are doing something illegal.

A very strange analogy, because if a pedestrian steps off the pavement, the motorist is not at fault. I say this from experience, knowing someone it happened to, and it was a fatality.

It wasn't the police, it was a civilian police worker.

Exactly, and a colleague of the photographer said (in the article) '“Almost everyone in Sussex Police knows Eddie. They’ve used his photographs in official documents like annual reports – and so has the fire brigade. And he regularly helps them by sharing pictures of people who are wanted or...