Teen beauty spot drinkers are ramblers, not rebels
- Dave Burrows
Second phase of works begin at Telford mining site
Thursday 1st September 2011, 4:42PM BST.
Work has begun on the second phase of mining at a Shropshire beauty spot after UK Coal bosses successfully evicted protesters from their campaign HQ campsite.
The company, which is mining at a site in Huntington Lane, Little Wenlock, has now started to create an access road to the quarry’s second site.
Jack Tarr, a spokesman for UK Coal, said: “We are actually now starting work on the access road.
“We have moved the camp which was previously located there and operations are continuing. All the remnants of the site have been removed as part of that process.
“The top soil and subsoil materials from the area will be removed until we get to the coal. The soils are stored elsewhere on site and then put back as part of the restoration.”
Campaigners defied bosses for 18 months at the site, building a camp including tents, a 20ft, lookout tower, and high-wire ropes.
Bosses at UK Coal, who are mining 900,000 tonnes of coal from the site, won a court battle to evict protesters from the site in July.
Bailiffs swooped on protesters last month.
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