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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/power-station-plotters-walk-free.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A group of climate change activists have walked free from court over a protest at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-power-station-plotters-walk-free.jpg" alt="A group of climate change activists have walked free from court over a protest at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station"/></a></p>
<p>A group of climate change activists who were convicted of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass after they planned to shut down the UK&#8217;s second largest power station have walked free from court.</p>
<p>The group were among more than 100 people arrested when police raided the Iona School in Sneinton, Nottingham, on the morning of Easter Monday, April 13, last year.</p>
<p>The protesters planned to trespass at the coal-fired Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire and shut it down for a week, a trial at Nottingham Crown Court heard.</p>
<p>In December a jury found all 20 protesters, 18 of whom were sentenced on Wednesday and who are from across the country, guilty of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass.</p>
<p>Judge Jonathan Teare sentenced the group to a mixture of community orders and conditional discharges and told them the jury rejected their motive behind the aim of shutting down the power station.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;There was substantial material before them that closure of the power station would not only stop the emission of carbon into the atmosphere, but also provide a huge publicity stage for your ambitions, and I join with the jury&#8217;s verdict, having heard the evidence, that this was at least an equal aim of your intention to stop emissions.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is sad to reflect that this very expensive criminal trial has probably more than fulfilled your ambitions for publicity.&#8221;</p>
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