09.17 Some more pictures are coming in of last night's eviction. You can see more in our Occupy London gallery. 09.07 Following the eviction of the site at St Paul's as well as the School of Ideas in a disused building in Islington, north London, some of the protesters have moved to Finsbury Square. Kai Wargalla said: We hadn't expected to be evicted from the cathedral steps because previously the church has said it would give us sanctuary when there's a violent eviction. There was also some really unnecessary tension and stress caused by the police when they told us we had five minutes to take our things from the camp. It wasn't that violent today, but the violence we did see came from the police and the bailiffs. 08.54 City workers were genuinely happy that the area had finally been cleared, Andrew Hough reports. A contract worker, who gave her name as Joanna, said: "I have been working in this area for about 30 years and it is a beautiful part of London but this protest has been a scar and a blot on the landscape. I am so pleased and so happy they have finally gone. It has been grubby and the site has smelled. I am glad they have been forced to leave. It is sacrilegious being in front of St Paul's which is such a magnificent building and being in our Olympiad year it has not been a great look. She added: "Everybody is entitled to their opinion and no one argues against their right to protest but I don't think it was right that they could set up camp like they did." A banker, who said his name was John, said he was also "very happy" that the camp had been evicted. "It is fantastic," said the 29 year-old, who lives in Clapham, south London. It is about time that they were forced to leave. It is a disgrace that they have been able to stay for as long as they did. It has been a blight on the area and it has not been a great look. All my colleagues have been really angry about it. So what if we make money? What's wrong with that? But some workers said they were sad the protesters had been removed. "It is strange they are no longer there, they have been my neighbours," said Linn Benjaminsen, a 28 year-old corporate lawyer originally from Oslo, Norway. I was surprised when I saw they weren't there this morning. I knew that they had lost their day in court. I am sad that they have gone. I was quite happy that they had got to stay for as long as they did to make their statement. 08.45 The Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington, John McDonnell, has joined the chorus of support for the Occupy movement. 08.32 Last month, Giles Fraser wrote about the eviction of Occupy London for the Guardian. Occupy does not herald the beginnings of a world revolution. But it has given many world leaders a good kick in the pants and made them know, in no uncertain terms, the degree of frustration that exists about an economic system that, among its many other crimes, rewards the rich with huge bonuses and penalises the poor with cuts to welfare. But to St Paul's, the existence of the camp has been seen too much in terms of a little local difficulty - graffiti, hassle, problems with income and visitor numbers. This is a mistake of perspective that comes about through years of ingrained thinking that the building is the purpose of the cathedral. After a decade-long fundraising campaign to find £42m needed to clean the building, it may be inevitable that the cathedral's whole administrative infrastructure is bent towards this end. Thus it becomes just too easy to worship Christopher Wren and not the God who spoke of the rich having to give up all their possessions. Which is why the forcible eviction of Occupy will be far more a failure for the church than it will be a failure for the camp. Today, he added: "Riot police clearing the steps of St Paul's Cathedral was a terrible sight. This is a sad day for the Church. 08.22 We now have more footage of police evicting protesters from St Paul's. For a recap of the events that have led to the overnight removal of protesters, have a read of the timeline of the Occupy London movement. 08.03 The Green party mayoral candidate, Jenny Jones, has lent her support to the Occupy protesters. 07.55 In a statement, Stuart Fraser, policy chairman of the City of London Corporation, has said resorting to removal of protesters was "regrettable." It is regrettable that it had to come to the need for removal but the High Court Judgment speaks for itself. The site has now been cleared and the area is undergoing a deep clean. Some areas of the site may be cordoned off during this cleaning but we will complete the work as quickly as possible, in order to return the site to its regular use. 07.50 Footage has emerged on YouTube that appears to show protesters challenging whether police have the permission of St Paul's to clear the steps. 07.45 A statement on the Occupy London website claims Giles Fraser was blocked from the Occupy London Stock Exchange site last night. At around 2am in the morning, the floodlights which illuminate the neoclassical edifice of that great building were turned off. When the lights returned, four policemen could be clearly seen on the balcony, in silhouette. Not long afterwards, police were given leave to clear the steps themselves, the site of former Canon Chancellor Giles Fraser's famous intervention of 16 October, when he asked the police to leave and recognised our right to assemble. Giles Fraser, who is so much a part of this story, was prevented from crossing the police lines to reach the Occupy London Stock Exchange site tonight. We would have liked to see him there. This morning, the City of London Corporation and St Paul's Cathedral have dismantled a camp and displaced a small community, but they will not derail a movement. The attention given to the final hours of the Occupy London Stock Exchange site is testament to that. We would like to thank all those who got the word out on social and traditional media overnight. We are deeply appreciative of the sustained attention we have received; it's all the more precious at absurd hours of the morning. 07.40 The former canon chancellor at St Paul's Cathedral, Giles Fraser, who resigned in the wake of the protest movement, has paid tribute to the demonstrators. 07.38 The Occupy protest was a "symbolic statement," one protester tells Andrew Hough. George Barten, 36, who has been living at the site since it was established, said protesters had not put up much of a fight. "It stayed reasonably peaceful," the "social justice" campaigner said. We made a symbolic statement of resistance. That is all we intended to do. He said that the camp had been "successful" in leading political debate about capitalism and the City of London's role in the world economy. Mr Barten, from Stoke Newington, north London before moving into the camp, added that the OccupyLSX group would continue to protest in front of St Paul's Cathedral. He said it was "onwards and upwards" for the movement. Some members were now visiting schools to urge students to become part of "democracy." "We won't be coming back everyday but we will definitely be having public events here," he said. We just can't have tents.What a perfect place to hold such events, in front of this building that (preaches) tolerance and compassion. 07.25 Donna Bowater files this report of the overnight eviction. Protesters camping at St Paul's Cathedral in London as part of the Occupy movement have been evicted by police after losing a Court of Appeal challenge. The camp, which was set up in the shadow of the Cathedral last October, was dismantled by officers and around 100 bailiffs after the eviction started shortly after midnight. Occupy London was refused permission by the Court of Appeal last week to challenge orders evicting protesters from the site. 07.09 Is this the end for Occupy London, asks The Independent's Kevin Rawlinson. He says the biggest problem the group face is not the eviction but the indifference of the public. While it may take violence beamed into people's living rooms to turn the majority from a position of relative ambivalence to one of avowed opposition to the movement and the way it is going about its business, their ignorance of its workings and - more importantly - of what it actually stands for (rather than simply what it stands against) is a festering and potentially mortal sore for Occupy. 07.00 A City of London police spokesman has confirmed that at least 20 arrests were made overnight, calling the eviction "peaceful." 06.54 Our man on the ground also sends us this picture from outside St Paul's: Scene outside St Paul's after the Occupy eviction ANDREW HOUGH 06.44 Andrew Hough, who is at St Paul's, reports that the area is calm and near empty. One lone protester remains, looked on by police guarding the site while live tv crews broadcast from the scene. After four and half months the area is now clear. City of London cleaners have been working throughout the night to clean the area. Workers are walking past, with many pausing to look at a site that was full of tents last time they came to work. 06.29 Kai Wargalla, a spokesman for the Occupy movement, has been speaking about the surprise eviction at sister site The School of Ideas. The School of Ideas was evicted today as well, which we were shocked about, so we'll probably put up some tents in Finsbury Square to accommodate those people too. There are around 150 people there now since we got the decision about St Paul's last week. 06.10 The Occupy group has created this map of visitors to the St Paul's camp, showing support from all over the world in the last 100 days. 05.35 Police are withdrawing from the cathedral. Dave Wyllie tweets: 05.24 Police have formed "a kettle" at Millenium Bridge, according to some of the protesters. They claim it is to prevent people sleeping on the streets. Others suggest police are simply moving people on. 05.05 There have been some suggestions that the protesters will move the St Paul's camp to Finsbury Square. Kai Wargalla, a spokesman for the Occupy movement, said the eviction isn't the end for Occupy and they are planning to regroup and come back stronger. Wargalia also says the police gave them five minutes notice before the eviction. It's really sad what's happening today but I think we can be proud of what we've achieved. 04.35 Dozens of police officers have marched away from the cathedral, perhaps heading up the road to bolster the line preventing more supporters reaching the area.The traffic has also picked up as dawn approaches, so it could be that they have moved to ensure vehicles are able to pass safely. 04.05 The protesters have gathered and are currently plotting what they are going to do next. Some have suggested staging a march from St Paul's, others have said they'll be back at the steps of the cathedral tomorrow morning to start again from scratch. 04.04 Legal observers at St Paul's have said there were around 12 arrests, according to the Guardian's Ben Quinn. 03.50 The identity of the "praying man" is apparently Jonathan Bartley who claims to have been a green party candidate for Lambeth and Southwark and the director of a thinktank called Ekklesia. 03.41 Machinery can now be heard removing what is left of the wooden pallet barricade. A line of police officers can still be seen blocking off one of the streets with chanting supporters on the other side. 03.31 A video of what protesters say is the removal of a "praying man." Warning: explicit language. 03.16 Police are now removing the 12 remaining protesters from the makeshift fortress. There are whistles being blowed and the protesters around them are shouting. One says she is impressed at how her fellow demonstrators are remaining so calm. She adds: "I would have got angry and kicked them in the face." 03.00 The Occupy movement's Twitter feed claims hundreds of supporters are being blocked from reaching St Paul's. Protesters on the Occupy live stream also say the police are about to move in to clear the cathedral steps calling it a "big mistake," quite what that means remains to be seen. Other demonstrators can be heard chanting in the background. 02.50 Here is some footage of the tents being removed by police and bailiffs. 02.41 From St Paul's James Orr says police are kitted out in full riot gear with uncertainty as to how much force they are prepared to take to remove defiant protesters. 02.30 We're getting reports that some people have been arrested, however this is unconfirmed. The BBC claims to have seen one arrest. 02.10 Here is a live stream of the evictions outside St Paul's Cathedral, it is created by the Occupy protesters. A demonstrator in a mask is telling the BBC that hundreds of protesters will stand against the eviction but if they are forced to leave they will continue their fight against corporate greed on the other sites around the UK. 01.55 James Orr says the 50 or 60 protesters on site are currently scrambling to remove their belongings from their tents before they are fed to the rubbish trucks. 01.43 Dave from Occupy Scotland is outraged that there aren't more people helping them make a stand against the police and corporate greed. There is [sic] only 100 people here making a stand.