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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Police Round up 114 Eco-protest Suspects Ahead of Power Plant Demo

Police made more than 100 arrests yesterday in a swoop on environmental protesters allegedly planning to sabotage one of Britain's biggest power stations.

Scores of officers in 20 vans descended on a private primary school and nursery where demonstrators had gathered ahead of what police suspect was a planned mass attack on Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire.

Detectives recovered specialist equipment which they said suggested the group represented a 'serious threat' to the safe running of the coal-fired station, which protesters say is Britain's second-largest producer of carbon-dioxide emissions.

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