Members of the environmental movement Extinction Rebellion (XR) held a rally outside British Cycling's annual general meeting last weekend in protest against its partnership with oil and gas giant Shell UK.
Around 20 members of XR's Midlands division protested outside the Edgbaston Park Hotel in Birmingham on Sunday morning. They let off green flares, banged drums and held a large banner with the words "no future in fossil fuels".
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