Forty XR activists arrested in various anti-fossil fuel protests across London

Olympians Etienne Stott and Laura Baldwin among those who climbed on oil tanker, while others hung banner from Marble ArchSix people have been arrested after Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists, including two Olympians, scaled an oil tanker in west London. The Metropolitan police said that 40 people were arrested in total on Saturday in a number of protests across the capital.The gold medal-winning canoeist Etienne Stott, along with two others, climbed on to the Shell tanker on Bayswater Road with a banner reading "End fossil filth". Continue reading...