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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Katrine Bussey

HISTORICAL FACTS: Greenpeace says activists arrested after ending forth road bridge protest - Caught on Camera

Greenpeace said its demonstration, which saw 10 activists suspend themselves from the Forth Road Bridge outside Edinburgh, had now ended (Jane Barlow/PA) -

Greenpeace has said its activists were arrested by police after ending a protest where they suspended themselves from a bridge in order to halt a tanker carrying fracked gas.

The Forth Road Bridge outside of Edinburgh was closed on Friday after 10 Greenpeace activists suspended themselves from the structure in order to block the tanker, which was headed for the Ineos petrochemical plant at nearby Grangemouth.

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