Climate activists have broken into the UK’s largest inland oil terminal and chained themselves to pipes, bringing distribution to a halt. Thirty-seven Just Stop Oil protesters scaled a spiked fence and used a hacksaw to break through an unguarded rear gate into the Kingsbury site, in Warwickshire, just after midnight on Thursday. They let down the tyres of parked-up tankers before climbing onto the trucks and handcuffing themselves to pipework.... Police, who were guarding the front entrance at

Insulate Britain protesters have made impassioned speeches seeking to justify forming human roadblocks on the road network, as it emerged future protests are planned for next year. Seven members of the climate action group appeared at the High Court having been accused of breaking court injunctions. The protesters, who have a combined age of 428 and include an elderly Anglican priest, admitted the allegations but said they were compelled to act to highlight Britain’s so-called “ leaky homes ”...

An Insulate Britain campaigner said she was “ surprised ” but “ glad ” after judges gave seven demonstrators suspended prison sentences following M25 protests. Nine protesters were give prison sentences for admitting breaching an injunction, and being in contempt of court, at a High Court hearing in London. But Lord Justice Dingemans and Mr Justice Johnson gave only twoimmediate jail terms. Insulate Britain said the “ leniency ” of the sentences was in contrast to immediate jail terms handed to