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Vestas protesters glue themselves together outside Miliband's offices
Protesters fighting the closure of the Vestas wind turbine plant glued themselves together this morning to block the entrance to the London offices of the energy secretary, Ed Miliband.
The group of seven activists spent two hours stuck together in a chain outside the Department of Energy and Climate Change in Whitehall, forcing workers to use a back door.
They were eventually removed by a paramedic and arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass, according to the group Workers' Climate Action, which is calling for the Vestas plant to be nationalised.
Miliband is currently in Brazil. "The DECC asked us why we were doing it when he wasn't in the country," Sophie Lewis, a spokeswoman, said. "Our response was that he should be in the country."
The action came a day before the Vestas management goes to court on the Isle of Wight seeking an injunction to evict workers who have been barricaded in offices at its Newport plant for over two weeks. It came amid further claims that the company is trying to "starve out" the men.