100 arrested over power station protest

More than 100 people were arrested today for allegedly planning a protest at a coal-fired power station in Britain.

More than 100 people were arrested today for allegedly planning a protest at a coal-fired power station in Britain.

Police officers who raided an independent school in Sneinton, Nottingham, said the protesters would have posed “a serious threat” to the safe running of Ratcliffe-On-Soar power station.

A spokesman for Nottinghamshire Police said “specialist equipment” recovered during the raid led them to believe the power station was the intended target.

He said: “Just after midnight tonight, Nottinghamshire Police arrested 114 men and women from across the UK on suspicion of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass and criminal damage.”

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