Ten Greenpeace activists arrested after staging demo on Forth Road Bridge

Описание: Ten protestors have been arrested at the end of a demonstration which saw them suspend themselves from the Forth Road Bridge outside of Edinburgh in a bid to halt a tanker carrying fracked gas.

The bridge was closed on Friday after the Greenpeace activists suspended themselves from the structure in order to block the tanker, which was headed for the Ineos petrochemical plant at nearby Grangemouth.

The group suspended themselves from the bridge using ropes, ending up about 25 metres above the water level at high tide.

On Saturday morning Greenpeace announced it had ended the demonstration, saying they had “achieved what we set out to”.

The campaign group said its demonstration had prevented the Ineos tanker from delivering the gas for a full 24 hours, as the vessel could only travel to Grangemouth during high tides.

As a result the specially trained activists began climbing down their ropes early on Saturday morning.

Greenpeace said all 10 had descended safely and were voluntarily transported to Port Edgar in South Queensferry, where it said they were arrested by officers from Police Scotland on suspicion of culpable and reckless conduct.

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