Protesters fly in for PR Week awards

You couldn't make it up: PR awards bash halted... by PR stunt. The great and the good of the UK PR industry got a bit of their own medicine at the annual PR Week magazine awards last night. The swanky black tie affair, held at Grosvenor House on Park Lane, was infiltrated by members of airport activist group Plane Stupid. The interlopers targeted the table booked by Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic. A kerfuffle ensued during the dinner phase of the evening which reportedly resulted in five police vehicles – and as many as 20 bobbies – turning up removing the Plane Stupid members. One awards goer said that in the resulting melee "one girl [was] being pinned to the floor by about five police". "It was a pretty blue chip response being in Park Lane," added another attendee. "There was an immense commotion, we think they must have handcuffed themselves under the table as the place was swimming with staff. We thought it was an embarassing stripogram or something, I mean you don't expect a stunt at the PR Week awards do you?" After about an hour of disruption the awards were just getting underway, hosted by Alexander Armstrong, when one Plane Stupid member who had eluded capture heckled the host. A shoo-in for best stunt of the year at next year's PR Week bash, surely?