On Saturday 11th December activists from across the country took action in solidarity with the Huntington Lane protest camp at New Works, Telford in Shropshire. The protest camp has been occupying the land between Site A and Site B of a proposed open cast coal mine since early March but put out a call for help in October after UK Coal started preparatory work on the southernmost part of the site. In response to this callout, people descended upon the site and successfully blockaded the entrance to the mine. No arrests were made. The blockade came at the end of a successful gathering at the anti-coal site which saw skill sharing, plenty of vegan food and essential work done to the camp. The action also follows on from a number of recent actions at Huntington Lane that have been disrupting the work of UK Coal, last month at a similar gathering a group of digger divers successfully brought work on the mine to a standstill after trespassing onto the mine and jumping on to the earth movers.

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