Clarkson's lawn covered with manure

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Seven female climate change campaigners have dumped horse manure on Jeremy Clarkson's front lawn in protest against the broadcaster's views on global warming.

Dressed as suffragettes and arriving at the scene in a horse-and-cart, the women unloaded the manure in front of Mr Clarkson's Oxfordshire home and unfurled a banner reading "this is what you're landing us in".

Tamsin Omond, 24, a member of the environmental pressure group Climate Rush, said: "I love Jeremy, I love fast cars, I love progress, but I've learnt some things and those things terrify me. I learnt that climate change will make my future unrecognisable. I know I'll not have the same choices that Jeremy has now.

"If we keep on loving the fossil-fuelled lifestyle then by the time I hit 49, the world will be too busy coping with the impact of climate change to bother about how big an engine is possible."

The campaigners said they had targeted the Top Gear presenter because of his "blase attitude to climate change", including a recent trip driving to the Arctic which they claim emitted an estimated 1.7 tonnes of carbon.

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