She was surrounded by police officers who put up screens (Picture: Jamie Lorriman)

A woman has glued her breasts to the road outside the Goldman Sachs offices today as activists ramp up disruption on the final day of protests.

The eco-protester was spotted by passengers on a bus lying face down with her top up to her neck.

Several police officers surrounded the woman and put up screens to stop the public watching her one-woman protest.

It was quite possibly the most spectacular stunt yet as climate change activists targeted London’s financial districts to highlight what they call the business world’s ‘role in our collective suicide’.


Extinction Rebellion (XR) demonstrators temporarily blockaded the London Stock Exchange by gluing themselves across entrances to the trading hub in the City of London early on Thursday morning.

Her protest was spotted by passengers on the double decker bus (Picture: Jamie Lorriman)

Police tried to stop the public watching the one-woman protest (Picture: Jamie Lorriman)

They were un-attached before being taken away in police vans, with Scotland Yard saying 26 people had been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespassing.



The Exchange said all markets were open as normal.

Elsewhere, five protesters including 83-year-old grandfather Phil Kingston clambered onto the roof of a DLR train at Canary Wharf station in east London, holding signs saying ‘business as usual = death’ and ‘don’t jail the canaries’.

British Transport Police (BTP) used ropes, ladders and harnesses to remove them before confirming five people were arrested on suspicion of obstructing the railway.

In central London, dozens of XR members including drummers and banner-carriers could be seen demonstrating outside offices of bankers Goldman Sachs on Fleet Street.

Phil Kingston, 83, sits on top of a DLR train as demonstrators block traffic at Canary Wharf Station (Picture: Reuters)

Police take the pensioner away after his protest at Canary Wharf Station (Picture: Reuters)

Protesters have blocked a door to the London Stock Exchange in their latest protest (Picture: PA)

The group moved down the road and blockaded it at intervals, with around a dozen buses seen stuck on either side of the blockade.

Some protesters were arrested at the scene.

Organisers say groups will target up to 10 locations by ‘swarming’ areas including the Bank of England and Rothschild and Co in the City of London, and Deutsche Bank near Liverpool Street.

The Metropolitan Police did not immediately have any figures on the number of arrests it had made on Thursday.

XR said its action in the City of London was likely to last a few hours, on the day the group is due to end blockades at Parliament Square and Marble Arch.

Protesters block traffic outside Nomura Bank during the Extinction Rebellion protest (Picture: Reuters)

Extinction Rebellion activists block traffic in the financial district (Picture: Wiktor Szymanowicz / Barcroft Media)

A ‘closing ceremony’ is due to be held at Speaker’s Corner, Hyde Park, at around 5pm but the group said the public should expect more action ‘very soon’.

An XR spokeswoman said Thursday’s targets were selected because ‘the financial industry is responsible for funding climate and ecological destruction and we are calling on them, the companies and the institutions that allow this to happen, to tell the truth’.

Some 1,130 people have been arrested during the protests which started ten days ago on April 15, while more than 10,000 police officers have been deployed.

The Metropolitan Police said 69 people have been charged.

The action has seen Waterloo Bridge and Oxford Circus blocked, a ‘die-in’ at the Natural History Museum, and activists gluing themselves to objects.

In a statement announcing the end of its action, XR said: ‘We would like to thank Londoners for opening their hearts and demonstrating their willingness to act on that truth.

‘We know we have disrupted your lives. We do not do this lightly. We only do this because this is an emergency.’

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