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Four activists have been arrested and charged with public order and breach of the peace offences after they allegedly blocked the entrance to an oil refinery with an old washing machine.
Protesters from This Is Rigged allegedly locked themselves onto an old washing machine, halting traffic in both directions at the entrance of the Grangemouth oil refinery from 7pm on Friday.
The group claimed their alleged action halted petrol distribution from the oil terminal and they remained at the scene into the early hours of Saturday morning, police say.
It is part of a sustained series of actions in which the campaign group has vowed to 'shut down the Scottish oil industry' which saw blockades by the group at terminals in Clydebank and Grangemouth on Wednesday and
