The postal service in the United Kingdom has asked members of the public to stop mailing potato chip bags after a social media campaign resulted in a surge of chip packages, causing messy delays.

The movement which was launched on Friday, asked activists to post pictures of themselves sending their empty bags back to the manufacturer, Walkers. It’s an effort to pressure Britain’s largest potato chip brand to stop packaging its products in plastic.

The company has a mailing address that allows people in the U.K. to send them letters free of charge, so the campaign’s website advertised that it “won’t cost a penny” for people to send their chip bags. Protesters were asked to merely put a label with Walkers’ address on the packet.

@walkers_crisps 2025 is much too long, you can do better than that! #PacketInWalkers pic.twitter.com/aVNQGxn5En

— Claire Kaye (@ItchyfeetClaire) September 21, 2018

Although Walkers plans to produce plastic-free packaging for the 11 million daily bags of chip..

(LONDON) — An Irish man who missed his flight at Dublin Airport was arrested Thursday for running after the plane on the tarmac in a bid to flag it down.

Witnesses said a man in his 20s broke through an airport door and ran toward the Ryanair plane, which was about to take off for Amsterdam, at around 7 a.m.

Declan Harvey, who was at the airport, said he could hear a man shouting “Wait!” at the plane before he was tackled to the ground by airport workers.

The airport said that a man became “agitated” after he and a woman arrived at the gate too late for their flight. It said the man “broke through a door and made his way onto the apron, trying to flag the aircraft down.”

He was briefly restrained by Ryanair staff until airport police arrived. He was handed over to Irish police and taken to a Dublin police station.

Patrick Kehoe, 23, later appeared in a Dublin court charged with criminal damage to a door lock. He was granted bail until a court appearance in November.

As he left co..

(THE HAGUE, Netherlands) — Dutch police have arrested seven men who are suspected of plotting a large-scale extremist attack in the Netherlands that prosecutors say they think has been foiled.

The national prosecutor’s office said in a statement Thursday that the men were arrested by heavily armed police in the towns of Arnhem and Weert.

The statement says the arrests capped a months-long investigation that was launched by intelligence suggesting the alleged ring leader, a 34-year-old man of Iraqi heritage, wanted to carry out a major extremist attack on a large event and cause multiple casualties.

Prosecutors say the suspects wanted to attack an event site using bomb vests and assault rifles, and planned to detonate a car bomb at another location.

They say an investigation of potential targets is continuing.