An Effort to Address Environmental Protest
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Over the past decade, the emergence of the `environmental protest' movement has created significant policing challenges for any force unfortunate enough to play `host' to a major road construction project. Once constructed, the Birmingham Northern Relief Road (BNRR) will be the United Kingdom's first `tolled motorway'. The scheme is hugely controversial because its environmental impact on 27 miles of open countryside to the north and east of the West Midlands conurbation. As such, it has become the latest major campaign for the protest movement, colloquially known as the `eco-warriors'.
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