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Ten arrests after Greenpeace protest closes Forth Road Bridge

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Ten people have been arrested after environmental protesters abseiled off the Forth Road Bridge in a demonstration against a tanker carrying fracked gas.

The protest against the Ineos ship Independence – which was making its way to Grangemouth – was reported to police at about 13:00 on Friday.

Five men, aged between 35 and 40, and five women, aged between 25 and 42, were later arrested in connection with the incident.

The bridge remains closed.

Images from the scene had shown protesters on wires holding red banners displaying a number of slogans decrying Ineos’ influence in the plastics industry.

Greenpeace accused the firm, and its owner, Jim Ratcliffe, of attempting to sabotage a global plastics treaty due to be voted on by UN member states in Switzerland next month.

Ineos described the action by Greenpeace as “dangerous, disruptive, and entirely counterproductive,” adding it “threatened skilled jobs in Scotland”.


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