Pro-choice supporters held a counter demonstration against an anti-abortion group’s “kerb-side vigil”.

Signs such as “my womb, my choice” and “no return to backstreet abortions” were held up at the protest in Preston Road, Brighton, on Saturday.

The Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (SPUC) waved placards against abortion on the other side of the road.

Organiser Judy Law said the vigil was trying to “make people aware of the truth of abortion”.

The protest came after separate Pro Life group Abort 67 was criticised for “intimidating” woman outside the Wiston Clinic in Brighton.