Protesters from Extinction Rebellion (XR) blockaded two of News UK's major printing presses in a move to stop a range of papers reaching news stands on Saturday. More than 100 protesters used vehicles and bamboo lock-ons to block roads outside the printing works at Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, and Knowsley, near Liverpool. The presses print the Rupert Murdoch-owned News UK's titles including The Sun, The Times, The Sun on Sunday and The Sunday Times, as well as The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, and the London Evening Standard. Under a banner reading "Free the truth", XR tweeted that it was using the disruption to expose the newspapers' "failure to report on the climate & ecological emergency, and their consistent manipulation of truth to suit their own agendas". The group said it was planning to block routes out of the printing works throughout the night.
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