Why these grandparents are fighting climate change

Unafraid of the impact a criminal record might have on a career, pensioners are protesting against climate change and calling on banks to move their money out of fossil fuels, reports The Irish Times

The slight, white-haired figure of grandfather-of-four Phil Kingston doesn't quite fit the stereotype of an environmental activist but old age, he has found, does have advantages.

For a start, it's clear that police don't want to arrest grandparents, he says with a smile. In fact he regrets that on one occasion when he was arrested, to be removed from a sit-in at a bank in the UK, he was promptly de-arrested on the street outside.