University building daubed in Just Stop Oil protest

Buckets of paint and spray cans were used to paint the glass facade of The Forum on the campus

Just Stop Oil said it was against government plans for new oil and gas projects

A man has been arrested after a University of Exeter building was daubed with paint in a protest by Just Stop Oil.

Buckets of paint and spray cans were used to paint the glass facade of The Forum on the campus.

Just Stop Oil said it was "in resistance against the UK Government’s plans to licence new oil and gas projects".

The university said it respected "the right to protest, providing it is carried out safely, respectfully and within the law".

Just Stop Oil said before the demonstration: "The politicians have been bought and educational institutions are absolutely complicit in allowing them to continue this genocide.

"Universities are accepting tens of millions in dirty money and letting the fossil fuel companies come to careers fairs to give out free pens.

"Students have a duty to step up and show teaching institutions we won’t stand for it anymore."

The university said in a statement: "We are aware of a protest being carried out by an individual on the University’s Streatham Campus this afternoon. 

"We respect the right to protest, providing it is carried out safely, respectfully and within the law."

Devon and Cornwall Police said a man had been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and was in police custody.

Just Stop Oil held another protest at Oxford University.

Last month the Rosebank oil field, the UK's largest untapped oil field estimated to contain up to 300 million barrels of oil, was given the go-ahead by regulators.