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Bailiffs swooped on Telford mining camp while protesters were at V Festival
Tuesday 23rd August 2011, 10:21AM BST.
Bailiffs swooped on protesters fighting mining at a Shropshire beauty spot because they knew the campaigners would be partying at the V Festival.
UK Evict claimed protesters who had vowed to protect the camp at the foot of The Wrekin with their lives instead abandoned it for the weekend festival at Weston Park.
Campaigners had claimed the protest camp, at the site being mined by UK Coal which today posted its first profits in four years, in Huntington Lane, Little Wenlock, was the biggest in Britain.
But Martin Leyshon, of UK Evict, which specialises in clearing environmental protest sites for companies, said just 12 people were on site when they turned up on Friday.
He said the company knew V Festival was the “sort of event” protesters would be attracted to.
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