Just Stop Oil activists bailed after Stonehenge sprayed with orange paint

Video footage posted on social media on Wednesday appeared to show two people wearing white shirts with the slogan Just Stop Oil approaching the stone circle with canisters and spraying orange powder paint
Just Stop Oil activists bailed after Stonehenge sprayed with orange paint

Just Stop Oil protesters spraying an orange substance on Stonehenge (Picture: Just Stop Oil/PA)

Two Just Stop Oil activists who were arrested after Stonehenge was sprayed with orange paint have been released on bail.

Wiltshire Police said a man in his 70s and a woman in her 20s had been bailed after being arrested on suspicion of criminal damage, damaging an ancient monument and deterring a person from engaging in a lawful activity.

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