AT LEAST 25 climate activists were arrested today after they sabotaged seven petrol stations in central London.

The protest by Just Stop Oil made fuel pumps at the petrol stations unusable by breaking the number displays on the pumps, covering them with spray paint and glueing themselves to them.

They also blocked entrance roads by sitting across them with banners.

Just Stop Oil said 51 activists with the group disrupted seven petrol stations across London.

“This morning Just Stop Oil bring the demand of no new oil to the heart of power in central London,” Just Stop Oil said on Twitter on Friday morning.

“This action has been taken as ‘fossil fuel companies have humanity by the throat’.”

Tez Burns, a 34-year-old bicycle mechanic and physics graduate from Swansea who took action today, said: “I can’t live with myself, knowing what I know, without doing all I can to stop new oil and gas.

“We are suffering the worst cost-of-living crisis in 40 years and facing climate breakdown because of our dependence on oil.

“Yet the government is allowing energy companies to drive us into poverty with skyrocketing energy bills, and is failing to protect us from the consequences of climate collapse.”

“Enough is enough.”

Jade Calland, 29, from Lancashire, who also took action, said: “I cannot stand by while young people, people on low incomes and those least responsible for the climate crisis have their lives destroyed.

“Today we are resisting the government’s plans to allow more oil and gas.

“We want to stop the misery forced on millions by rising energy bills, food poverty, poorly insulated housing and a society run for the benefit of the fossil fuel companies and the rich.”