Activists climb BP's office in oil spill protest
Flagged up: Greenpeace activists Ben Stewart and Jens Loewe on BP roof
12 April 2012
Two environmental activists today scaled BP's central London headquarters in protest at the
Ben Stewart, 36, a law graduate from Stoke Newington, and Jens Loewe, 41, from Germany, hoisted a flag depicting the firm's logo covered in oil and with the slogan "british polluters" above the entrance in St James's Square.
The Greenpeace protesters had hoped to greet BP chief Tony Hayward as he arrived for a board meeting. But BP today said that he had chaired the meeting by video-link from the US. The Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank on April 20, killing 11 crew.
