That’s oil we need... protesters shut M25
CLIMATE activists blocked swathes of the M25 yesterday as they launched three days of protests following Britain’s recordbreaking heatwave.
The Just Stop Oil campaign group climbed gantries at three stretches of the motorway triggering nine-mile tailbacks, hourslong delays and closures.
Pledging to prolong the misery, they also asked that ‘no one travels on this motorway from Wednesday to Friday as we will be blocking the highway’. They climbed signs at junction 10 eastbound near Cobham, Surrey, the Poyle Interchange at Heathrow between junctions 14 and 15, and in Dartford between the Queen Elizabeth Bridge northbound and junction 30.
A 22-year-old woman was arrested. A series of injunctions were granted following last year’s protests meaning activists can face tougher sentences if they block the M25.