FIVE Extinction Rebellion (XR) protesters involved in a window-breaking action at the headquarters of News UK will go on trial this month.

Activists took action to highlight the role of the The Sun and The Times newspapers in ”suppressing facts about the climate crisis, peddling an anti-climate action agenda and slowing the urgent action needed on the climate and nature crisis,” XR says.

The action took place during a heatwave in July 2022 on a day when temperatures broke 40 degrees in Britain for the first time.

It was part of a series of protests that also targeted HSBC, Barclays, JP Morgan and the Department for Transport over their roles in the climate crisis.

The activists will go on trial at Southwark Crown Court for alleged conspiracy to commit criminal damage on May 12. 

Last month, independent press regulator Impress rang the alarm about the “worrying lack of independently regulated information [on climate change] reaching the public.”