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By Dan Sales for MailOnline and Ryan Hooper for the Daily Mail
A bicycle mechanic joined a grandmother-of-four and a student on bail for throwing paint at a Van Gogh to cripple the M25 on behalf of Just Stop Oil today.
Tez Burns, 34, Diane Hekt, 68, Phoebe Plummer, 21, and Tom Gardener, who is believed to be in his 20s, all clambered up gantries to paralyse the road network.
Police forces in and around London had declared they were ready to tackle the protesters, but they still managed to evade them to climb the huge road structures unhindered.
Ms Plummer, who is a student in the capital, is currently on bail for tossing Heinz tomato soup over a Van Gogh's £76million Sunflowers painting at the National Gallery.
The protester - who calls herself Ziggy Stardyke on Twitter - has been involved in several major Just Stop Oil Demonstrations, including gluing herself to the road to stop traffic.
She declared today: 'As a young person the only future I see before me is one of mass famine, severe droughts, wildfires, floods and societal collapse.
Phoebe Plummer, who is a student in the capital, is currently on bail for tossing Heinz tomato soup over a Van Gogh's £76million Sunflowers painting at the National Gallery.
Just Stop Oil supporter Tom Gardener climbed onto a motorway gantry on the M25 for the fourth day in a row as part of their campaign to demand that the government halts all new oil and gas licences and consents
'I understand people must be frustrated with us, and rightly so, but we have to disrupt daily life because we are hurtling towards climate catastrophe, yet the government continues to betray me, my generation and people in the global South by issuing new oil licenses.'
Elsewhere on the London circular pensioner and grandmother-of-four Diane Hekt, 68, also managed to get past police forces to get onto a gantry.
She has taken part in the Insulate Britain blockades and on September 20 this year was found to have broken an injunction banning protests at Kingsbury Oil Terminal.
Ms Hekt, who the court heard lived only off a state pension, was given a 25-day prison sentence but it was suspended.
She said today from a gantry between junctions 8 and 9: 'I
