A man who scaled London's Big Ben, and spent the day perched on the historic clock tower with a Palestinian flag, was arrested shortly after he came down after midnight Sunday, police said.

Pictures from the scene showed a cherry picker transporting him to waiting emergency crews on the ground.

London's Metropolitan Police force, which was first alerted to the climber around 0700 GMT Saturday, said the man was arrested after the "protracted incident".

The man spent the day perched barefoot on a ledge several metres up the landmark, even........

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