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NAME: UK G8 3 030705N TAPE: EF05/0587 IN_TIME: 10:55:07:11 DURATION: 00:03:50:02 SOURCES: APTN DATELINE: Various, 3 July 2005 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST Gleneagles area, 3 July 2005 1. Pan down from helicopter flying over summit area to entrance of Gleneagles hotel 2. Sign reading "Gleneagles" 3. Policemen patrolling in front of hotel entrance 4. Road to Gleneagles closed with policemen checking vehicles 5. Mid shot of police at road block 6. Man adjusting fence around summit venue Dundee, 1 July 2005 7. Cutaway of Tayside Police Chief Constable John Vine 8. SOUNDBITE (English) John Vine, Tayside Police Chief Constable: "We do need to secure the site. It is a potential terrorist target and all our planning has been based on it both being a terrorist target and of course a target for public protest, so there is a necessity for us to have an exclusion zone in order to secure it." Gleneagles area, 3 July 2005 9. Police on horses patrolling between Gleneagles and Auchterarder 10. Police on horses at road block 11. Police talk to driver in a car and explain the road is closed because of the summit 12. Various police observation tower Dundee, 1 July 2005 13. SOUNDBITE (English) John Vine, Tayside Police Chief Constable: "So it is complex. It's not just at Gleaneagles although that's the centre of events. Something could happen anywhere across Scotland and we have to be prepared to be flexible and have the people available to deal with that.'' Gleneagles area, 3 July 2005 14. Pan from fence in countryside to checkpoint set up near Gleaneagles 15. Close up CCTV surveillance camera at checkpoint 16. Car being stopped by police at checkpoint 17. Police checking ID of car passenger 18. Car driving through checkpoint 19. Various shots of police patrolling in the Orchil Hills, from where protesters could potentially try to reach the summit venue Edinburgh, 3 July 2005 20. Various of demonstrators walking with signs reading: "Fight Poverty. Not War" 21. Wide shot of hill where protesters have gathered to read the names of the Iraqi war dead 22. Man reading names 23. People gathered on the grass applauding STORYLINE The site of the G8 Summit at Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland was locked down on Sunday as a sophisticated security operation to protect the world's most powerful men came into force. Operation Sorbus - named after the berry of the rowan tree, which according to folklore wards off evil spirits - includes a two metre (six foot) high steel mesh fence around the perimeter of the exclusive Gleneagles hotel and country club, in the Perthshire countryside. It is guarded by a five-mile (eight-kilometre) ring of steel, a series of watchtowers and a network of surveillance cameras. Chief Constable John Vine of Tayside Police has spent the past 18 months planning for the arrival on Wednesday of leaders of the Group of Eight industrialised nations in this picturesque corner of rural Scotland. Vine's team is braced for the thousands of anti-globalisation protesters who intend to disrupt the three-day summit - and even the possibility of a terrorist strike. "All our planning has been based on it both being a terrorist target and of course a target for public protest, so there is a necessity for us to have an exclusion zone," Vine said. As well as a formidable obstacle, the fence is also a clear demarcation line; protesters who attempt to cross it face immediate arrest, according to Tayside police. Inside the perimeter, where the leaders of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Russia, Canada, Japan and Italy will meet from Wednesday to Friday, are further extensive security measures. About 10,000 officers have been drafted in from across the United Kingdom to deal with G8 protesters. Three thousand police have been assigned to Gleneagles itself, including a specialist firearms team, officers mounted on horseback and a guard-dog unit. An airship will act as a spy in the sky to spot troublemakers and beam back video footage to officers on the ground. Two helicopters also will patrol the skies. Police have set up four checkpoints on rural roads that pass close to the hotel's grounds and only delegates, media and local residents issued with accreditation will be allowed to pass. In a further security measure, petrol stations across central Scotland have been banned from selling fuel in portable containers until the summit ends. Vine, who has 22 years of policing experience, said an extensive intelligence operation had been underway for months, involving Britain's domestic intelligence service MI5, Special Branch and London's Metropolitan Police, gathering details on anarchist groups. Meanwhile, demonstrators marched through the streets of Scotland's main cities on Sunday. Protesters have streamed into Scotland in the days before the Group of Eight industrialised nations begin their summit. Hundreds of anarchists and anti-globalisation protesters have expressed their intent to disrupt the three-day summit and on Sunday they attempted to join a group marching in a protest aimed at hardline European Union policies towards asylum seekers. The anarchists were held back by police, however. In Edinburgh, a second march was organised by anti-war activists. Demonstrators staged a peaceful protest through the main streets and into the countryside where they read a list of the Iraqi war dead - both soldiers and civilians.