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Four Greenpeace campaigners have scaled a crane beside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster to protest against the government's plans to update Trident. | Four Greenpeace campaigners have scaled a crane beside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster to protest against the government's plans to update Trident. |
Once in position the activists unfurled a 50ft banner suggesting PM Tony Blair "loved" weapons of mass destruction. | Once in position the activists unfurled a 50ft banner suggesting PM Tony Blair "loved" weapons of mass destruction. |
The two men and two women plan to stay there until the Commons votes on the issue on Wednesday, said a spokesman. | |
They intend to phone MPs asking them to reject plans to renew the UK's Trident nuclear weapon system. | |
The crane, estimated to be about 200ft high, is fixed on a barge on the River Thames and is being used to replace cast-iron fascias on Westminster Bridge. | |
A spokesman for Interserve, which is carrying out the work for Transport for London, said the protest was a "real pain". | |
Leg injury | |
Police were called to the scene at 1830 GMT on Monday and are currently trying to talk to the demonstrators. | |
A police spokeswoman said one protester had been taken to hospital with a leg injury. | |
According to Greenpeace, the injured man was a cameraman travelling on the boat that dropped the climbers onto the barge. | |
"As the boat left the barge and came up the Thames he hurt his leg as it hit a wave," said a spokesman for the organisation. | |
MPs will debate and vote on Wednesday evening on the £20bn plan to replace the submarine-based Trident nuclear weapons system. | MPs will debate and vote on Wednesday evening on the £20bn plan to replace the submarine-based Trident nuclear weapons system. |