Elderly Just Stop Oil protesters target Magna Carta

Just Stop Oil protesters have targeted the Magna Carta in their latest environmental stunt.

Two protesters, aged 85 and 82, cracked the glass case surrounding the royal charter at the British Library in central London on Friday morning.

The library holds two of the four surviving copies of the Magna Carta, with the others at Lincoln Cathedral and Salisbury Cathedral.

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