Climate change action of a different style for Global Strike 4 Future saw Monmouth pupils taking a more pro-active approach.

Two teams tackled litter hot-spots around town - collecting discarded plastic bottles and cans at the Rowing Club and riverbank area and Chippenham fields and then moving into Monnow Street.

Previous action by pupils had seen large numbers of students maching down Monnow Street and gathering at St Thomas’s Square before heading on to target their protest at the fuel station on Cinderhill Street.

The disruption was supported by some motorists and shoppers who sounded their horns or applauded while others felt the action was unreasonable, attracting comments that the pupils were just using the excuse for time off during school-time and never protested at weekends.

The third protest confined itself to Agincourt Square and kept off the roads, using the opportunity for speeches and to show solidarity with the action on climate change.

Schools were firm in ensuring that all pupils had parents’ permission to leave the school grounds and all the protests were accompanied by adults who supervised the march in hi-vis jackets.

The second march did end with a sit-down protest on the pelican crossing in the middle of Monnow Street which did cause a few irate motorists to complain, but overall the march was peaceful and well-organised.

One of the climate change activists picking litter around the town Friday, 29th November, said that it was Global Strike Day today: Ruby went on to say: "Today we wanted to show people we were not doing it to miss school but to take positive action instead of just telling people that they should be doing stuff to tackle climate change".