Greenpeace climbers scaled the North Sea platform 45 miles off the Norfolk coast yesterday and fastened a giant 12m x 8m canvas to one side of the structure.

The activists then hoisted up a high-pressure hose which pumped out 1,000 litres of a red liquid onto the canvas and into the sea below.

The group are calling it the world’s first artwork to be installed an active offshore gas site.

The climate stunt at Shell's Skiff gas platform 45 miles off the coast of Norfolk

Designed by artist Anish Kapoor, the ‘artwork’ is titled ‘Butchered’ and was in response to heatwaves, wildfires and floods in the UK and globally, which Greenpeace say the oil and gas and wider fossil fuel industry is responsible........

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