THREE people were arrested following a protest outside an abattoir in Hampshire last week. 

Pressure group Animal Rebellion gathered dozens of its followers outside the Newman's site in Farnborough on Wednesday. 

The group said its action was over the role of the animal industry in climate change, as well as animal welfare and conditions for abattoir workers.

Posting to their Facebook page, the Animal Rebellion group wrote: "Our brave and peaceful rebels attended a heartbreaking vigil at a slaughterhouse in Farnborough. This slaughterhouse is in a residential area, opposite houses and close to the local school, who witness the trucks full of cows, sheep and pigs who arrive here regularly, on their final journey 😢"

"Today we paid respect to the animals who were behind these walls. We protested against the trauma that both the animals and slaughterhouse workers have to endure in these facilities. Please join us in speaking out for a kinder, plant-based future."

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Three people were arrested by Hampshire Police and charged though these were later withdrawn. 

In a statement Hampshire Constabulary said: "In relation to the abbatoir protests in Peabody Road, Farnborough on Wednesday, October 16, the three people who had been charged have now all accepted conditional cautions.

"The charges have therefore been withdrawn."

The protest came after Extinction Rebellion protesters took to the streets of London to highlight the climate crisis facing the world. 

There have been dozens of arrests with tensions reaching boiling point in Canning Town in East London on Thursday morning when a protester standing on the top of a train was pulled down by angry commuters. 

The Green Party's Baroness Jenny Jones and Caroline Lucas MP sought to challenge the Metropolitan Police’s blanket ban on protests across London.

They argued that the order is an “unprecedented and disproportionate curtailment” of the right to free speech and free assembly which risks criminalising protest about the climate and ecological emergency in the capital, and want the High Court to rule that the decision to impose the ban is unlawful.

At the preliminary hearing, lawyers for XR asked for a full airing of the case to be heard as a matter of urgency.

The Met’s Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Laurence Taylor, who led the policing of the demonstrations, insisted the order is legal.

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Hundreds of activists in Trafalgar Square put black tape over their mouths, to symbolise the silencing of their protests by police.

Councillor Andree Frieze, Green Party candidate for Richmond South, who took part, said: “This symbolises the way our voices are being shut down, our voices are not being listened to.”

Elsewhere, Extinction Rebellion mothers and babies blockaded Google HQ in London over what they say are donations to climate change deniers.

Around 100 mothers and babies blockaded one side of the building by staging a mass feed-in, the group said.