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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damien Gayle

Just Stop Oil protesters sabotage petrol pumps on M25 motorway

police and Just Stop Oil protesters with banner at Shell services
Police address Just Stop Oil campaigners barricading the Cobham services on the M25 in Surrey on Thursday. Photograph: Just Stop Oil/PA

Environmental activists have sabotaged petrol pumps at two motorway service stations, in what they described as a “significant escalation” in their campaign against fossil fuel distribution in England.

About 35 supporters of the Just Stop Oil campaign staged blockades at the Cobham services in Surrey and the Clacket Lane services in Kent, both on the M25, smashing the display glass on petrol pumps with hammers and defacing them with spray paint.

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