Just Stop Oil activists blocked the M25 motorway by climbing onto eight gantries on Monday morning.

The Metropolitan Police said they had received reports of a protester climbing onto a gantry at Junction 25 and issued a statement that: "The road has been temporarily closed at this location (anticlockwise). Specially trained officers from our protest removal team are on their way manage the scene," the statement added.

Surrey Police issued a statement that they had reports that there are also protesters on the motorway gantries "at junction 6, one between junctions 8-9, one between junctions 13-12 southbound and one between junctions 13-14".

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