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Holyrood Park

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AddressQueen's Dr, Edinburgh EH8 8HG, United Kingdom
Opened 1541
Hours Open 24 hours
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Holyrood Park is a royal park in central Edinburgh, Scotland about 1 mile to the east of Edinburgh Castle. It is open to the public. It has an array of hills, lochs, glens, ridges, basalt cliffs, and patches of gorse, providing a remarkably wild piece of highland landscape within its 650-acre area.

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Climate-strike: thousands protest over UK

Feb 16,2020 5:23 am

thousands of People to the United Kingdom have joined to protest global Climate Change , require the pupils to the foot of the schools and the workers in downing tools, action.

millions of People around The World take part in the demonstrations in British cities such as Glasgow, Manchester and London .

Anna Taylor, co-founder of the UK Student Climate Network, said it was "very easy" to convince People to show up.

education Secretary Gavin Williamson said, that "Every Child " should be in school.

He added: "you should learn to do, you should not off bunking and it is very irresponsible to encourage People , you children to. "

a Student, Jessica Ahmed, 16, to warn by E-Mail to your school that you join the protests taking place in the class.

Speaking at a protest in Westminster, said: "The School is important, but so is my future.

"If the politicians were taking the appropriate measures that we Need - and with this action a long time, if it was detected, The World was changed in a negative Way - then I would school, do not skip. "

students in the class room left estimated the coast in Cullercoats, North Tyneside

organizers that around 100,000 People attended a rally in the centre of London , while More Than 20,000 were thought to be marching in Edinburgh and 10,000 in Brighton.

In Belfast, the organizers, the turnout at between 3,000 and 4,000, with Young People on the Cornmarket area of The City center and the staging of a "mass die give-in".

And in Birmingham, around 3,000 protesters, including hundreds of children, gathered in The City 's Victoria Square with the March through the surrounding streets.

UK Student Climate Network said, More Than 200 events organized had been all over the country.

head of the Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn said, the Young People at the Westminster rally: "you and a whole generation brought on [Climate Change ] into the center, and I Am absolutely thrilled about it.

"If we pull this planet, we Need to get to net-zero said emissions much faster than by 2050, [the government]," he said.

He wants to draw every country, in order to keep that obliged signatory Nations, the global temperatures "well below" 2. 0C (3. 6F) above pre-industrial times.

with reference to President Donald Trump , Mr Corbyn said it was "shameful, if you are a President of a great country like the United States," the.

The global protests come ahead of a summit at the United Nations next week, which will insist that countries do more to prevent the worst impacts of Climate Change .

kids holding a similar "die" in Cambridge

dozens of students from John Stainer Community Primary school in Brockley, south-east London , were among those participating in protests in London .

head teacher Sue Harte said: "children Need to know that you have a right to democratic protest".

Sebastian , a pupil at The School , said he joined the protests to combat Global Warming .

Sebastian said, he knows how important it is to look after The Planet

"you, the government do not understand that we are going to go through them, and they are not," he said.

Eight-year-old Sohan and Nayan, five, from south-east London , joined the protesters with her mother, Celine.

Sohan said: "We want to save Our Planet , and we hope that we can help March. "

Sohan and Nayan with her mother, Celine,

protest In Belfast, extinction, Rebellion, activist, Lorraine Montague, from the County of Tyrone, was dressed mark like a Swan to The Threat of Climate Change on the animal world.

"Our climate is in crisis, and the government, nothing about you does," She Said .

"We mourn for our future. I don't feel happy about the fact that children, the Way our climate in the future. "

In Edinburgh, demonstrators - most of them Young People - are recited and sung, as they went from The Meadows to Holyrood Park near the Scottish Parliament .

they carried posters reading "Scotland, you're too small to change The World " and "If you were smarter, I would be in school".

Young climate activists in Glasgow think, children could "save The Planet " children of Terra Nova secondary school in Cheshire are participating in the UK-students-climate-network of The Strike in Manchester

the extinction of Rebellion, the said organized their own climate and environmental protests in the UK earlier this year, it stood "in solidarity" with stakeholders.

He added that his members of the accession of The Strike and the holding of private events, including a choir and a "kids' space" in Victoria Tower Gardens, Westminster, and outside of King's College, London .

demonstrators in Manchester, where at least a clothing store closed, The Strike

Some unions, including the TUC, the University and College Union and Unite, are supporting members, the participation in the "strike".

Co-operative Bank said it supports employees who want to join The Action , while U.S. clothing brand Patagonia closed all the stores and took the show back to the protesters.

But said, in Norwich, protester Tiffany Wallace, that your employer rejected your work the free time to join the demonstrators, "because they think it is not important".

"The worst thing you can do is fire me," said the 33-year-old.

"I didn't feel I should compromise My Own values and integrity and what is important to you, so I can earn money for a business. "

Tiffany Wallace said her company refused to give her permission to join the protests

energy minister, Kwasi Kwarteng said he could not "leave to take children out of school" part in the protests.

But he said he had the support of "their energy, their creativity, and the fact that she completely mastered these issues and take them very seriously."

London mayor Sadiq Khan , Green Party MP Caroline Lucas and Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson all supported The Strike for youth-Strike 4 climate campaign.

The Metropolitan Police said that seven People were arrested for public order offences, but overall The Day ran "smoothly".

Commander Dave Musker said tried a "tiny minority of protesters" to block Lambeth Bridge , an important route for the emergency services to St Thomas' Hospital. Another man was arrested at The Bridge on suspicion of discharging a flare in a public place.

Teenage fighters Greta Thunberg - who inspired the protests - sailed to the United States, a long-running series of school strikes before the UN climate summit in New York next week

The global action initially inspired by activist Greta Thunberg .

The teenager, from Sweden, also plays a role in the events of The Day and is set to join a rally planned in New York , where world leaders meet at the UN next week.



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Source of news: bbc.com

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