PROTESTERS won at least one more night camping outside Bournemouth Town Hall, but will again face eviction ahead of Remembrance Day marches.

Occupy Bournemouth yesterday won a stay of execution after a judge agreed to consider a county court appeal.

Several members of the ant-capitalist group have registered as burghers, a term for registered electors, of Bourne Avenue, and now claim they have a right to be on the land.

Council chief executive Pam Donnellan said: “With Armistice Day on Friday and the Remembrance Day civic procession – which includes representatives of the borough’s two ‘free’ Regiments, the Rifles and the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment – processing from the Town Hall to the War Memorial on Sunday, we would urge Occupy Bournemouth to show respect and vacate the site immediately.”

The judge was due to hear the protesters’ appeal at 11am today and if the protesters lose, the council’s bailiffs could move to end the 11-day long demonstration.

Occupy Bournemouth is a local faction of a worldwide protest against the current financial system and is a smaller version of the action outside St Paul’s Cathedral going on in London.

Sandra Hale, 44, from Longfleet in Poole, said: “We are not here to cause trouble. We just want to be heard.”

Part of the camp had been packed away yesterday, but two members climbed up a town hall tree in anticipation of the bailiffs before news of the appeal came through.

One, Sean Gale, 20, said: “I am here because I can’t afford the £9,000 a year tuition fees to go to university.”

The camp yesterday had 10 tents and a gazebo for group meetings and meals, and members said the daily population fluctuated between eight and 30.

Some of the concerns are local – like the council’s outsourcing deal with Mouchel – and members believe more people will join as they become aware of the protests.

Charlie, 28, a therapist from Pokesdown in Bournemouth, said: “When people are working long hours and struggling to survive, they are not as aware of the bigger picture of what’s going on with the government and its support for corporations.”