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Activists from This is Not A Drill smash the windows at the entrance to the Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre in protest against the company's extractivst activity

ENVIRONMENTAL activists once again smashed the windows of a major oilfield exploration research facility outside Cambridge on Monday night.

The protest, organised by the 2022-founded This Is Not A Drill group, said its fourth demo at the Schlumberger Research Centre was due to the facility’s links to remote drilling, oil exploration and fracking research.

An anonymous activist said the centre’s “days are numbered, and they know it.

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