Ministers and MPs criticise protesters for targeting printing presses
Ministers and MPs criticise protesters for targeting printing presses

Protesters from Extinction Rebellion (XR) have blockaded two of NewsCorporation’s major printing presses to stop a range of papers reachingnewsstands on Saturday.

More than 100 protesters used vehicles and bamboolock-ons to block roads outside the Newsprinters printing works at Broxbourne,Hertfordshire, and Knowsley, near Liverpool on Friday.

By Saturday morning,police said some 63 people had been arrested.