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More than 200 Camp for Climate Action protesters have already set up camp in a remote field close to the Kingsnorth plant in Kent.

The number of protesters at the heavily-policed site in Hoo was expected to more than double by the end of Sunday's official opening day.

The protesters are opposed to proposals by the plant's owners, E.ON, to build a new on-site coal-fired facility - the first such plant to be built in Britain for more than 30 years.

Hundreds are expected to join a rally in Rochester at noon, organised by the Campaign against Climate Change and Kingsnorth Climate Action Medway.

Speakers at the event will include: Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP; Ashok Sinha, Executive Director of Stop Climate Chaos; and Sean Furey, Deputy Director of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, Kent branch.

Protesters will then march seven miles from Rochester to Kingsnorth.

They will be joined by members of the Camp for Climate Action 'caravan' which has spent the last seven days travelling by foot to Kent from Heathrow via central London.

Thousands are expected to join the camp ahead of a day of direct action on August 9 to "shut down" the 2,000 megawatt plant which supplies electricity to 1.5 million homes in the South East.

E.ON maintains the new plant will be cleaner than the one it is replacing.