Animal rights activists stage blockades at McDonald’s distribution centres in UK

Protestors outside the distribution centre in Heywood, Greater Manchester ( Sara Bunney)

Animal rights protesters are blockading four UK distribution centres for McDonald’s which they say will impact roughly 1,300 restaurants.

Animal Rebellion said they are using trucks and bamboo structures at the distribution sites in Hemel Hempstead, Basingstoke, Coventry and Heywood, Greater Manchester, to stop lorries from leaving depots.