Protesters Clash With Security Guards At Possible Site Of Nuclear Waste Dump At Elstow

Interviews about the protesters’ tactics to prevent access for test drilling.

This Anglia TV report opens with scenes at the entrance to a building where equipment for the proposed test drilling at the site has been stored. Protesters struggle to block the way of four security guards at shift changeover. Anglia TV reporter Peter Lugg says the protestors are mainly women and elderly people. Percy Cox is interviewed about his role in the incident and says he held his walking stick defensively and that he was thumped. The scene is shown again, perhaps in a reenactment for the camera, and Mr Cox is seen wielding his stick. He agrees that the response of the security guards was inevitable. Women with children stand at the entrance and sing together. Interview with protester Mieke Hinchcliffe-Wood who says that things are escalating now the equipment is on site and they will continue to try and prevent the drilling work without violence. The reporter mentions passive resistance and the potential for the protest to cause a breach of the peace by getting in the way of the contractors. Two police officers visit a group of women and children sitting on a rug on the ground. This short video was made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.

Keywords

Nirex; Nuclear waste; Nuclear dumping; Protests; Campaigns

Place

Elstow (Other)