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  Courtesy Independent........
  
  Green MP Caroline Lucas arrested as anti-fracking protests reach fever pitch
  
  First day of 'mass civil disobedience' sees shows of dissent at Balcombe and related sites
  
  The Green party MP Caroline Lucas was arrested yesterday for her part in one of a series of
  
  anti-fracking protests which took place across the country. She was among several people arrested
  
  outside the gates of the energy firm Cuadrilla's drilling site in Balcombe, West Sussex.
  
  The day of action saw separate protests at the firm's offices in Lichfield, Staffordshire; the offices
  
  of the PR firm Bell Pottinger, who represent Cuadrilla; the constituency office of the Paymaster
  
  General, Francis Maude, whose Horsham constituency includes Balcombe; and the home of George
  
  Osborne's father-in-law Lord Howell, a former energy minister.
  
  It was the first of two days of "mass civil disobedience" that campaigners have said they will carry out
  
  to protest at the used of the controversial method of shale gas extraction known as fracking,
  
  or hydraulic fracturing.

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