MAESGLAS in Newport was the unlikely setting for a climate protest this morning as children from a local primary school set up shop on the main road.

Brandishing sign and placards and chanting "make a change" the pupils from Year 6 at Maesglas Primary School were undeterred by the inclement weather.

The demonstration forms the culmination of their lessons on the subject of climate change with each pupil having to write a letter to their teacher explaining the importance of being allowed to join the action.

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Today's protest was organised in part due to the pupils drawing inspiration from teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg who addressed the United Nations on the matter earlier this year.

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Next week the school plans to hold a tree-planting event as part of National Plant a Tree week.

Eight silver birch trees will be planted at the school as well as some box hedging.