Just Stop Oil protesters throw confetti and jigsaw pieces during Wimbledon match

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68-year-old Deborah Wilde and 66-year-old Simon Milner-Edwards ran on to Court 18 during play

She said: “I’m just an ordinary grandmother in resistance to this government’s policy of serving us new oil and gas licences. In normal circumstances this sort of disruption would be entirely unacceptable, but these aren’t normal circumstances.

Ball girls pick up the orange confetti thrown by a Just Stop Oil demonstrator on Court 18. Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP via Getty Images “We are facing new pandemics, economic inflation and increasingly authoritarian governments who will attempt to crush civil unrest. The other Just Stop Oil protester who invaded Court 18 was Simon Milner-Edwards, 66, a retired musician, from Manchester.

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