Five people have been arrested during the UK's first ever anti-Islam rally in Newcastle.
Nearly 400 people attended the Pegida rally, but thousands turned up at a counter-demonstration nearby.
There was a brief scuffle involving members of far-right groups but police said on the whole the protests were peaceful.
MP Ian Mearns told the Newcastle Chronicle that "it really shows the solidarity among the people of Newcastle and the North East, and from the perspective that the Pegida protest only had numbers in the low hundreds, and the counter protest had thousands it’s very encouraging".
Pegida is the name given to the 'Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West' group in Germany, although organisers of the UK group say they are separate from the German Pegida.
Matthew Pope has joined Pegida - he says it is about raising awareness, not racism:
