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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Brian Melley

Greenpeace demonstrators drape UK prime minister's house in black to protest oil expansion

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Five Greenpeace protesters have been arrested after scaling Rishi Sunak’s Yorkshire home in protest over what they called a new fossil fuel drilling “frenzy”.

Police were called after the group of activists draped the prime minister’s grade II-listed manor house in Kirby Sigston, near Northallerton, with oil-black fabric on Thursday morning.

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