<p><br /> More than a dozen men were in custody overnight after a controversial city centre demonstration by far-right group the English Defence League.<br /> </p><p><br /> The 13 were arrested by police for offences of public order and violence during Saturday's protest in Bradford, West Yorkshire, which was attended by fewer than 1,000 EDL supporters.<br /> </p><p><br /> Some threw bottles, cans, stones and three smoke bombs at opponents gathered nearby.<br /> </p><p><br /> Nearly 100 supporters of the far-right group climbed over a temporary 8ft barricade - aimed at keeping them inside the city's Urban Gardens - to get on to neighbouring waste ground from where they threw missiles at police.<br /> </p><p><br /> As the skirmishes were breaking out, nearly 300 people gathered for an alternative event hosted by Unite Against Fascism/We Are Bradford about half a mile away at the Crown Court Plaza.<br /> </p><p><br /> A West Yorkshire Police spokeswoman said of the 13 arrests, eight were from Bradford and the others from Wakefield, Leeds, Wolverhampton, Walsall and Birmingham.<br /> </p>
