Protesters topple Bush statue in London

Up to 100,000 protesters have marched through London and torn down a mock statue of visiting US President George W Bush, many of them convinced his policies were to blame for bombings targeting British interests in Turkey.

Demonstrators of all ages beat drums and blew whistles along a three-mile route that took them past Parliament and the end of Downing Street, where crowds paused to jeer towards British Prime Minister Tony Blair's office.

When they reached Trafalgar Square, protesters felled a six-metre papier mache statue of Bush in a parody of the toppling of a statue of Saddam Hussein when US and British troops swept into Baghdad. In the statue's top pocket was a puppet with a grinning Blair face.