KENDAL Green Party member Gwen Harrison, 40, was one of 22 people arrested on Monday during climate change protests in London.

Protesters daubed the windows of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and lay down in the road to block traffic in an effort to provoke society into action over climate change.

During the protest, campaigners with the group Extinction Rebellion super glued themselves to windows and card-entry gates at the staff entrance to the building – Ms Harrison was one of them.

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She was held for six hours at Hounslow police station before being released.

After her release she said: “We are now seeing the impacts of climate change in Kendal – more and more rain in the winter and hotter summers.

“We are facing floods on one hand and drought and wildfires on the other. There is clear scientific consensus across the world that we have only a few years in which to take action to prevent catastrophic changes. It’s been too easy to think that climate change won’t affect Kendal but we now know that it does.”

Ms Harrison said she intends to go to the capital on Saturday for a much larger protest – and several others from South Lakeland would also be making the trip.