Work Stopped Again at Mainshill Wood

Work was halted yet again at Mainshill today, starting at around seven a.m., when a group of about 17 people surrounded the harvester machine used for taking down large trees and one person managed to lock herself on with a D-lock to the arm of the tractor. The police and then Strathclyde Mountain Rescue and V Division cutting crew were called in, the latter two not arriving until approximately eleven a.m. Activists passed the time waiting in the cold and the rain playing games, much to the amusement of police and workers, who were incidentally no fun at all. People were told to vacate the premises upon the arrival of the cutting crew, but once there they cut out the locked-on person relatively quickly, and work was able to resume around noon. This action makes today the third day out of six working days that work has been successfully halted for a time.