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Protests in London continue as action reaches Heathrow

TEENAGERS demonstrated outside Heathrow airport yesterday as part of a fifth day of an “uprising” to demand that the government take more action over climate change.

Members of the youth wing of the Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement demonstrated outside the roundabout that leads to all five airport terminals.

A group of 15 young people, all under the age of 17, held a large banner outside the airport which said: “Are we the last generation?”

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