PROTESTERS of all ages and from all walks of life demanding the UK is carbon neutral by 2025 brought central London to a standstill under the Extinction Rebellion (XR) banner.
The XR protest involved more than 30,000 people each day, say organisers, with hundreds being arrested.
The campaigners, including people from Petersfield, Farnham, Alton and other East Hampshire towns, camped in Trafalgar Square with free vegetarian food kitchens, and even a camp barber.
From there protest ‘actions’ closed roads at about 11 sites, including Whitehall, some Thames bridges, and around the Houses of Parliament.
One campaigners ploy was to glue themselves to roads, while overhead police helicopters circled central London, the noise of their rotors underpinning the almost continual drumming by protesters, among them teachers, former policemen, city workers, mothers with children, pensioners, families, and lifelong environmental activists.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said thousands of officers from across the UK were working long hours in challenging conditions to police the protest.
Also involved in policing the mainly good-natured protest were police on horseback and riot squad units.
A spokesman said more than 80 tonnes of equipment had been seized, including tents and portable toilets.