Thousands of people are expected to take to the streets of central London on Monday, blockading some of the UK capital's busiest roads and bridges, and gluing themselves to street furniture, to raise the alarm over a mounting climate crisis
On Monday morning, a group of demonstrators with trees, plants and solar panels in tow barricaded Waterloo Bridge, one of five locations being targeted by environmental campaigners in the city as part of the protest, which is expected to continue for at least a week.
A demonstrator bangs a drum during a climate protest in London's Parliament Square.'Force the government to tell the truth'Anna Burton, from Lancashire in northwest England, said she came to Marble Arch on the corner of London's Hyde Park to call on big businesses to go carbon neutral and demand a better ecological future for her children. "I've come to force the government to tell the truth about climate change, the extent of the damage ...
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