Climate change protesters held at parliament

Published on Monday 27 April 2009 22:52

FOUR climate change protesters were arrested yesterday for gluing themselves together around a statue at the Houses of Parliament.

The three women and a man fixed themselves around the statue of Viscount Falkland outside the central lobby. Ambulance staff worked to release them before officers arrested the four for public order offences about two hours after the protest began.

The protesters belonged to the group Climate Rush, whose members say they are inspired by the "peaceful civil disobedience" of the suffragettes.

The statue they chose was one famously used in the past by suffragettes, who chained themselves to it to campaign for the vote for women.