Campaigners stage climate protests

Climate change campaigners have marked the end of a week-long protest at Heathrow Airport with a series of demonstrations at businesses across the UK.

About 50 protesters are still carrying out a sit-in at the headquarters of airport operator BAA close to the perimeter of the west London airport.

There were some minor scuffles as campaigners attempted to block some workers from entering the building but police said a group of about 100 people who set up camp in the car park yesterday passed a relatively "quiet night".

Meanwhile organisers of the Camp for Climate Action said other "direct action" events took place at five locations in Suffolk, Oxford and London.

A group of five people attached themselves to a concrete block outside the Sizewell A and B power stations near Leiston, Suffolk.

British Energy, which runs Sizewell B, said police are monitoring the protesters and there has been no disorder.

Eight protesters superglued themselves to the front of the headquarters of oil company BP in St James's Square, central London.

Protesters said about 20 activists dressed in flat caps and braces also demonstrated outside Bridgepoint Capital, the owners of Leeds Bradford Airport.

Carbon offsetting businesses, which enable companies to pay someone else to reduce the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere on their behalf, were also singled out.

In Oxford, campaigners entered the offices of the carbon offset company Climate Care and handed in a parcel of fish, to symbolise a "red herring".

Other demonstrators dressed as red herrings demonstrated outside the Carbon Neutral Company near King's Cross in London.

Protester Joss Garman said: "We're doing it because Climate Care are misleading the public. It's like being a member of the RSPCA then going home and kicking a dog."

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