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A Just Stop Oil activist on a overhead gantry on the M25. Herts police commissioner David Lloyd has questioned coverage of the protests (Just Stop Oil/PA)

Activists were protesting on the M25 for the fourth day in succession

David Lloyd told journalists they should think about whether or not to give the protests by Just Stop Oil the “oxygen of publicity”.

The M25 was partly shut on Thursday morning as Just Stop Oil activists targeted the motorway for a fourth consecutive day. From 6.30am, protesters again scaled gantries at various locations on the motorway, as they continue to call on the government to halt new oil and gas licences. At least…

Home secretary says it is officers’ duty to take a firmer line to safeguard public order

Artwork on the list includes Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh, and John Constable’s The Hay Wain

LBC journalist Charlotte Lynch was reporting on a Just Stop Oil protest yesterday morning when she was approached and questioned by two police officers. She showed them a press card, but was arrested

Home secretary tells police it is their ‘duty’ to take harsher action and accuses them of ‘institutional reluctance’

Essex Police said there was a collision involving the motorbike rider and two lorries during a rolling roadblock.

Radio journalist Charlotte Lynch, documentary maker Rich Felgate and photographer Tom Bowles have all been detained for reporting on the protests.

Officers from Hertfordshire police arrested an LBC reporter as well as a photographer and filmmaker covering action by Just Stop Oil on the M25.