Gluaiseacht activists charged in UK

Updated: 21:44, Saturday, 14 September 2002

Four members of the environmental group Gluaiseacht have been charged with public order offences after they chained themselves together on the roof of the Sellafield visitor's centre.

All four have been released on bail and are due to appear before Whitehaven Magistrates Court on 24 September.

The activists said they were protesting against what they describe as disinformation disseminated about nuclear power by the centre.

The action was timed to coincide with a Greenpeace-led flotilla which is protesting against a MOX shipment, rejected by Japan and returning through Irish waters to Sellafield.

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