Anti-fracking protesters trying to stop an oil drilling operations in Salford have parked a bus across the site.
The campaigning group Platform said that there were five people locked to the bus, which is reportedly blocking the entrance at the Barton Moss site run by IGas.
The action follows a similar one on Monday, when protesters temporarily blocked the heavily fortified site by dumping a 17-metre wind turbine blade. The blade was subsequently removed.
Wednesday's protest comes as a government-commissioned study, published on Tuesday, showed around two thirds of the UK will be open to fracking companies to license. "There is a huge amount of shale gas underneath us all and what is important for public confidence is to show the regulatory framework is robust," said energy minister, Michael Fallon.
The protests in Salford echo an ongoing campaign in August against oil drilling operation by Cuadrilla outside the village of Balcombe, in West Sussex, which saw thousands march against fracking and the arrest of Green party MP, Caroline Lucas.
