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| A man who scaled a 27-storey building in central London has been arrested for wasting police time. | |
| Hundreds of workers stopped to watch as the man, aged 45, climbed up Portland House in Victoria Street without ropes. | |
| Onlookers used phones to take pictures as the climber reached the top of the office block, having stopped to rest on several window ledges on the way up. | Onlookers used phones to take pictures as the climber reached the top of the office block, having stopped to rest on several window ledges on the way up. |
| Police taped off the area and later arrested him for criminal damage and wasting police time. | |
| Chalk and bandages | |
| Marcus Tucker, 27, a software architect who works on the 16th floor of the 320ft-high building, said an e-mail had gone round saying somebody was climbing up. | |
| "Somebody went down to speak to one of his accomplices and found out he was doing it as a protest against climate change. | |
| People took pictures as the climber went past | |
| "He came crawling up past our window. There was a crowd of people right by the window so I couldn't get as close as I would have liked." | |
| Mr Tucker said the climber was using only his bare hands, "with a little bit of chalk, and some bandages on his fingers". | |
| "About 10 minutes after he came past the window we heard the cheers from people down below, so I presume that's when he reached the top." | |
| Mr Tucker said he did not see the climber come back down, and said he presumed he had used the lift or waited for police to retrieve him. | |
| His co-workers had clapped and cheered as the climber made his way past their window, he added. |