Many top news sites reported this weekend on how a group of female campaigners wearing red body-paint lay down on the ground with the words, “simply no slaughter” printed on their stomachs.

The women where part of a Flash Mob protest at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 this weekend and joined hundreds of other activists opposed to a third runway at the UK airport in what is the first major demonstration since the Government gave the go-ahead for the expansion on Thursday.

Other demonstrators pelted a man dressed as transport secretary Geoff Hoon with sponges as he stood in make-shift stocks.

Environmentalists gathered with local residents and climate change groups in a show of solidarity and support for the village of Sipson, which faces demolition when the £9bn project commences.

More than 2,000 people will lose their homes and thousands more will be forced to live within a few hundred yards of the new third runway.

Campaigners, wearing red t-shirts emblazoned with the words ‘Stop Airport Expansion’, said they were ready to move into homes facing destruction.

While the demonstration was peaceful, police hemmed in the group of female campaigners wearing red body-paint who lay down on the ground with the words, “simply no slaughter” printed on their stomachs.

To find our more about this weekends protests watch this video from ITN.

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