Part of the incident was captured on camera.
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00:00Hello it's Richard Hunt from the Blackpool Gazette. A Blackpool great-grandfather who has been involved
00:05in a 32 days hunger strike against the government says he's contacted the police after an incident
00:11took place at the weekend. Paul Durrant is protesting the decision by the government to
00:17scrap the winter fuel allowance for pensioners and also what he says is an increasing number
00:22of illegal immigrants coming into the country. On Saturday Mr Durrant and his wife Pauline were
00:28involved in an altercation with another man part of which was captured on video. Mr Durrant says
00:35he's contacted the police to make a complaint but Lancashire Constabulary say they've not yet
00:40had an official complaint from Mr Durrant and no log number has been taken of the incident.
00:47Some of this incident was captured on video and here is a clip of the video itself which Mr Durrant
00:54says the police are aware of.