ANARCHISTS have vowed to blockade Edinburgh Airport and the Forth Road Bridge in the build-up to next year's G8 summit.

More than 100,000 activists are plotting to sabotage the city's transport links, it is claimed, bringing the country to a standstill in what would be the biggest protest Scotland has seen.

The anti-capitalist protesters want to prevent the meeting of world leaders at the Gleneagles hotel in Perthshire. Some campaigners said they would resort to violence if necessary.

The £150 million summit will be policed by more than half of Scotland's 15,000-strong force.

A member of Reshape, an anti-globalisation group which is part of the anti-G8 Dissent network, said: "We want to make the champagne-sipping elite inside the G8 tent sweat. We want them to feel the vulnerability that billions feel each day."