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Evening Standard
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Sian Baldwin

Just Stop Oil's craziest protests: from spray painting Stonehenge to storming the West End

In June of 2024 Just Stop Oil sprayed an orange substance at Stonehenge in Wiltshire - (Just Stop Oil/AFP via Getty Imag)

Just Stop Oil has announced it will stop protesting in the controversial way they have become famous for. The group said it is to cease direct action, with a final protest in Parliament Square on April 26.

In a statement issued on Thursday, the group said: “Just Stop Oil’s initial demand to end new oil and gas is now Government policy, making us one of the most successful civil resistance campaigns in recent history. We’ve kept over 4.4 billion barrels of oil in the ground and the courts have ruled new oil and gas licences unlawful.

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