National Grid appoints the National Eviction Team
The last demonstrator has been removed from woodland near Brecon, Powys, where protesters chained themselves to trees to try to stop a gas pipeline. Six were arrested when the operation began on Tuesday, and the last three have now been taken away.
Dozens of people who wanted to stop the pipe crossing a historic woodland had set up a camp at Penpont, with some there for several months. National Grid won a court order allowing it to evict the protesters. The National Eviction Team took just two days to clear the site of all protestors from trees and one tunnel.
The penultimate protester, a woman, was brought down and arrested at lunchtime on Wednesday after she had complained of feeling unwell.
They had objected to this section of the £840m pipeline, planned to stretch from Pembrokeshire to Gloucestershire, cutting through the Brecon Beacons National Park. The site has now been restored to its natural condition, with the pipeline laying underneath the ground.





