A SHROPSHIRE woman has scaled a Norwegian oil rig in the Arctic Circle in a defiant stand against deep drilling of a “fragile and unique” ecosystem.

Greenpeace member Katie Furlong, from Telford, joined a handful of fellow activists in a daring boarding operation early yesterday morning.

Their pontoon boat was dwarfed by the 38,000-ton Transocean Spitsbergen platform as it relocated to a new drilling site in the Barents Sea.