Climate protesters glue themselves around UK Parliament statue

Police sealed off part of the Houses of Parliament today after four climate change protesters glued themselves around the base of a statue. The four, from the group Climate Rush, stuck their hands together to form a chain around a statue of Viscount Falkland, which was the site of protest by a suffragette 100 years ago. The statue is in St Stephen's Hall, a corridor leading up to the central lobby at the parliament. The police closed the hall this afternoon as the authorities considered what they could do to remove the protesters. The four - three women and a man - wore red suffragette-style sashes and chanted "deeds not words", a slogan used by women campaigning for the right to vote. They chose the Falkland statue because a suffragette chained herself to it in 1909 and was only released when the authorities broke part of the statue. The Climate Rush website states: "We are a diverse group of women and men who are determined to raise awareness of the biggest threat facing humanity today - that of climate change. "Our government acknowledges the huge problems we face from climate change, but carries on with business as usual. "We demand deeds not words because individual choice alone cannot curb CO2 emissions if we are to stop runaway global warming."