Extinction Rebellion protests outside two printworks home to a number of national newspapers have forced news organisations to abandon deliveries to Wiltshire overnight.
Supermarkets, service stations and newsagents across the county have been affected by the roadblocks put in place by protesters in Broxbourne, London and Liverpool.
Around 80 people are involved in the protests outside News Corp printworks, where titles including The Sun, The Times and The Telegraph are produced.
A spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion said: “The plan is to maintain the blockade throughout the night, using vehicles and bamboo lock-ons, in order to prevent these papers reaching newsstands on Saturday. People are holding banners that say ‘Free the Truth’ and ‘They want us divided / Stand Together.’
“The groups are using disruption to expose the failure of these corporations to accurately report on the climate and ecological emergency, and their consistent manipulatIon of the truth to suit their own personal and political agendas.”
