THE JustStopOil group has released details about two protesters who are hanging from suspension wires on the QEII bridge.

The protest began in the early hours of this morning.

Morgan Trowland, 39, a bridge design engineer from London, said: "As a professional civil engineer, each year as I renew my registration, I commit to acting within our code of ethics, which requires me to safeguard human life and welfare and the environment. 

"Our government has enacted suicidal laws to accelerate oil production: killing human life and destroying our environment. 

"I can't challenge this madness in my desk job, designing bridges, so I'm taking direct action, occupying the QE2 bridge until the government stops all new oil."

A 33-year-old London teacher called Marcus, who didn't give his surname, said: "Too many people in this country simply don't know the scale and intensity of climate breakdown as the scientists describe it. 

"The authorities are criminally failing to get this grim science communicated. During Covid the science was conveyed on a daily basis. Why isn't the most existential threat that humanity has ever faced on the news every day? 

"Our political system is betraying the people of this country. More fossil fuel licenses means global genocide. Only direct action will now help to reach the social tipping point we so urgently need."