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Protests planned at London stock exchange over links to massacre in Bangladesh

THE London Stock Exchange will be hit be protests on Friday over its links to a massacre in Bangladesh.

Activists are demanding that British mining firm Global Coal Management (GCM) is delisted from the stock market.

The firm is pushing ahead with plans to extract an estimated eight million tonnes of coal from a mine in Phulbari, north-west Bangladesh.

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