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Article: Fifty green activists arrested trying to storm power station
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- August 10, 2008
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ENVIRONMENTAL protesters clashed violently with police yesterday
as more than 1,000 demonstrators converged on a power station in a
bid to shut it down.
Police made more than 50 arrests, taking the total during the
week-long protest against Kingsnorth Power Station to more than 100.
And 123 demonstrators were rescued by police boats after trying
to row to the coal-oil power station against force six winds. Kent's
Assistant Chief Constable Gary Beautridge said: "They were at risk
of hypothermia. The majority of them were very pleased to be
rescued."
At least four protesters managed to breach the perimeter fence
and scale a second fence protecting the power station near Hoo,
Kent. One made it ...