PROTESTERS against an incinerator in Newhaven have been perched 80ft-high on a crane for more than 32 hours.
Eleven campaigners, thought to be from campaign group Stop Incineration Now!, entered the site and six scaled the crane at 4am yesterday (Tuesday).
They are sitting in a net attached to the crane and have attached a banner.
Five people were a
rrested yesterday. A 45-year-old woman for obstruction and assaulting police and four people for aggravated trespass.
One person has recently come down from the crane after fears for health and safety but five people are still there.
Other campaigners superglued themselves to the road and locked themselves to equipment.
The protest began as a High Court appeal against the decision to build at North Quay Newhaven was heard and later dismissed at 5.30pm.
Francesca Corvino, from Stop Incineration Now!, said: 'They are prepared to stay up their an indeterminate amount of time.
'They had a lot of problems during the early hours of the morning (Wednesday).
'I think they have got some concerns about health and safety which has forced one of them to come down.
'This is a last ditch attempt at some non-violent direct action.
'They have been through the courts, the democratic process for the last five years, along with the residents of Newhaven, to try and get this incinerator to be stopped.
'The incinerator as they see it, poses a direct threat to public health and the affects have been well documented.'
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