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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Chris Slater

Protesters spark evacuation at art gallery by GLUEING themselves to famous painting

This is the moment two climate protesters glued themselves to a famous artwork at the Manchester Art Gallery.

Two young supporters of Just Stop Oil glued themselves to the frame of a 19th-century Turner painting at the gallery on Mosley Street in Manchester city centre this afternoon leading to the venue being evacuated.

Video of the protest shows two men wearing Just Stop Oil t-shirts each applying glue to one of their hands and sticking it to the frame of the 1809 oil painting. 'No new oil' was also spray painted to the floor in front of it.

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