18 held in power plant protest

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Around 26 Greenpeace members staged a protest at the Kingsnorth power station in Medway, Kent.

Six activists climbed a 200m-high smokestack at around 5am while 20 more chained themselves to the station's conveyor belt to prevent it burning coal.

They were urging Prime Minister Gordon Brown to reject plans for Britain's first new coal plant in more than 20 years.

Power company Eon wants to build a plant on the site that could supply electricity to 1.5 million homes.

But activists warn it will pump harmful carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere and create a precedent for more coal in the future.

Protester Ben Stewart, 33, who scaled a chimney at the site said: "We are facing a climate change emergency and we have not got the time to sit around. We have to force the issue.

"We want to have a planet we can live in and bring up children in. This will be difficult if countries like Britain build new coal-fired power stations."

A Kent Police spokeswoman said: "Officers do remain at the plant as there are protesters still at the site."