Campaigners against Brighton arms company EDO MBM have launched a number of actions from their peace camp despite further arrests and tent seizures.

Wednesday 29th August began with an early morningnoise demonstration outside the firm's Moulescoombe premises. On arrival campaigners found the gate open and walked towards the parking lot. A security guard from Guardian Guards Ltd. UK, brought out an Alsatian dog which proceeded to bite a protestor outside of thegates, The dog later attacked an EDO MBM employee before being placed back in the vehicle.

The bitten protestor was taken to Sussex County Hospital with a ripped tendon. He stayed in overnight, and is due to be operated on this morning. Police took no action against the security guard or the dog.

Shortly after 9am, a 19 year old woman from Leeds was arrested under S235 of the Local Government Act 1972. Police alleged she had breached a Brighton Council byelaw, and held her for 14 hours before releasing her on Police Bail.

Andrew Beckett, spokesperson for the campaign said "This is typical of the one sided political pro- EDOMBM policing that we have come to expect from Sussex Police. A dog bites a man and attacks an employee and the police do nothing. An hour later they use a bye-law to engineer the arrest of a young woman who was doing nothing different to the kind of actions that have taken place on a weekly basis for the last three and a half years!"

In the early afternoon 15 police entered the peace camp and siezed a tent in which a woman was sleeping.Sarah Johnson from the campaign noted: "They walked off with the tent, knowing full well that their seizure of tents the day before had not succeeded in driving out activists, nor in preventing further protests against the company. This is done under a 19th century Public Health Act, which has a maximum penalty of £2 if the poice are able to prove their case in the courts. They have spent thousands of pounds and hundreds of police hours in a futile "War against Tents". Council Tax payers should be concerned that this kind of petty policing forces up their bills."

At about 3.30pm, a man was arrested for obstruction of the highway after he attempted to lock himself onto a TNT courier van which had just left EDO MBM's premises. Officers later confiscated a video camera used to film them conducting searches, and arrested a woman for "obstructing a police officer" when she protesteda bout their actions.

The three arrestees were released in the early hours of Thursday morning, with conditional bail.

The regular Wednesday noise protest took place outside the Moulescombe premises between 4 and 6 pm, and no arrests were made. This morning workers at the site faced another noise protest on their way into work,and again there were no more arrests.