XR protesters halt oil tanker

SIX people were arrested yesterday after Extinction Rebellion protesters, including two Olympians, glued themselves to the top of a Shell oil tanker.

Canoeist Etienne Stott, 42, was seen being carried away by police, while sailor Laura Baldwin, 42, was also held after the protest in Bayswater Road, West London.

The activists, who were protesting the use of fossil fuels, later descended on Marble Arch where they let off flares and played bongos in the road.