Demonstrators today superglued themselves to a Government building in the latest protest against fracking.

More than 60 members of activist group Extinction Rebellion descended on the headquarters of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in Westminster.

Some barged into the building through a side entrance and painted the group's logo on a number of glass panels.

Others superglued their hands to the revolving doors of the department and locked their arms together with plastic tubes.

It's said protesters also chanted "fracking is stoppable" and "keep that oil in the soil".

But Metropolitan Police says 15 people was arrested on suspicion of obstructing the highway.

Frederik Arstad, who travelled from Oslo, Norway for the protest, said the group wanted authorities to take more seriously the "severity of the situation" regarding climate change.
Activists from Extinction Rebellion staged the latest anti-fracking protest (
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The 20-year-old said: "It will raise the ocean levels, cause more floods, forest fires like we've just seen in California, and it will affect the whole world, especially the poor parts of the world.

"This will create climate refugees. They have to go somewhere and they might come here and we will probably shut them out, and there will be a human disaster."

Other demonstrators travelled from Cuadrilla's shale gas fracking site at Preston New Road in Blackpool, Lancashire, which they claimed was environmentally damaging.
The activists were angry at government complicity with the fracking and fossil fuel industries (
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Some protesters glued their hands to the building (
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Liz Beck, who lives near the site, said: "Everywhere where it's been done there's been earthquakes, air pollution, water pollution, and once you contaminate the water that's it.

"We need to transform now. We need money to go into renewable energy. We're an island. We've got the tide. We've got plenty of wind and sun.

"That's where we need to go. The people in the industry, they can be retrained. They have skills that are needed in the renewable energy sector."
Some of the demonstrators had travelled from abroad to express their concern in rather unusual ways (
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A Met Police spokesman said: "Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service were in attendance at a protest taking place between Parliament Square and Parliament Green.

"An appropriate policing plan is in place and officers are liaising with protestors who are currently obstructing the highway.

"Fifteen people have been arrested on suspicion of obstructing the highway."