National Theatre to end Shell membership from next year

Move comes as opposition grows to fossil fuel firms' linsk with UK arts bodies

The National Theatre has announced it will end Shell's membership from next year, as the arts organisation accelerates plans to make itself carbon neutral in the face of the climate emergency.

Shell is listed as one of the theatre's corporate gold members, with prices for this band of membership starting at 15,000 a year. Its other corporate members include the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline and the investment firm Goldman Sachs.