'Tyre Extinguishers': Campaigners let down tyres of polluting SUVs in wave of overnight action

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Campaigners let down tyres of SUVs across the country (Credit: The Tyre Extinguishers)
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Campaigners let down tyres of SUVs across the country (Credit: The Tyre Extinguishers)

The new Tyre Extinguishers' group is targetting fuel-hungry vehicles in bid to highlight their outsized contribution to urban air pollution and the climate crisis

A new group of climate activists say they have 'disarmed' hundreds of SUVs in central London and other prosperous neighbourhoods across the UK by deflating their tyres overnight. In what is set to prove...

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