More than 40 arrests made after UK activists target ‘bee-killing’ pesticides

Environmental activists lock themselves to pesticide barrels in protest outside Syngenta headquarters More than 40 people, including Greenpeace UK’s programme director, Amy Cameron, have been arrested after a protest outside pesticide company Syngenta’s Yorkshire headquarters. A number of the activists locked themselves on to 15 blue pesticide barrels outside the headquarters, blocking the gates and leading to the temporary closure of the local A62. Activists had transformed a roundabout outs...

By Guardian staff