POLICE INJURED IN ANTI-BNP PROTEST

Anti-fascist demonstrators managed to burst through security into the White City building's reception while more than 500 waved placards outside.

Police were forced to divert traffic as the demonstrators crowded outside the main building chanting "Shame on you".

Some threw police officers' helmets and wooden poles used to hold placards at the four-deep cordon of officers.

BNP leader Nick Griffin got in through side entrance despite the crowd's bid to block his entry.

Metropolitan Police arrested five people for public order offences, violent disorder, ABH and assault on a police officer. One person was arrested for being wanted on a warrant.

Three police officers received minor injuries, including one who received a head wound, but none of them required hospital treatment.

The protest broke up shortly after Mr Griffin and the other panellists left the building when filming finished.

BBC staff were reported to have been told not to leave the building while demonstrations continued outside.

Mark Byford, Deputy Director General said: "The programme was recorded without disruption. Members of the audience asked the kind of tough questions that mark Question Time out as the premier television programme where the public put the panellists on the spot. In all the BBC has been recording four television shows at TV Centre this evening involving 1,200 members of the public in the audiences. We would like to thank our staff for their support this evening."