Shellfish waste: Each Christmas, Norway sends a tree to London as a sign of its gratitude for British help during the Second World War. But for how much longer? Norwegian gratitude may about to be eclipsed by exasperation.

A Norwegian businessman chained himself to a bridge by Sellafield nuclear plant yesterday. Petter Stordalen, chief executive of Choice Hotels Scandinavia, Norway's largest hotel chain, said he had been forced to take action because Tony Blair wasn't listening to fears about the nuclear plant. [Guardian].

Like the Irish, the Norwegians are angry at what they regard as the UK government's careless attitude towards Sellafield's nuclear waste emissions. Marine currents carry technicium 99 from Sellafield to Norwegian waters where it contaminates seaweed and shellfish.

Last Christmas, Norwegian environmental activists in Santa Clause outfits climbed the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square as a protest against Sellafield. [Bellona].