CLIMATE campaigners continued to block oil facilities across Britain today on the fifth day of action against the government’s investment in fossil fuels.

The Just Stop Oil coalition is taking action against the continued expansion of oil and gas ventures and the government’s “obscene and genocidal plans that are killing children and will condemn humanity to oblivion.”

About 20 activists took part in a sit-in outside the gate to the Kingsbury Oil Terminal in Warwickshire, meaning tankers had to be turned away.

A separate roadblock was also set up on the M42, the route to the terminal, while two people climbed on board a tanker to prevent it from moving.

At least five people were arrested for taking part.

Tunnels dug under the access road to the Navigator terminal in Grays have been under occupation since Friday.

The activists had not had access to food for 60 hours as of this morning, but said they remained in good spirits and were determined to continue the action until the government announces it will end new oil and gas explorations.

Activist Thalia Carr, who took part in the Kingsbury action, said that the intergovernmental panel on climate change report, released a day earlier, highlighted the urgency for action on climate change to avoid wars, starvation and the creation of billions of refugees.

The 60-year-old said: “It is that bad and no-one is doing anything on the scale and at the speed we need.

“Nothing I have tried so far has made a tiny bit of difference so I am forced to put my whole self out there and hope that the government will listen before it is too late.”