Report in The Daily Telegraph, 10/08/2000

 

City Diary: Tibetan protesters at BP

IT'S tough at the new, high-profile BP. Twenty protesters gathered outside its offices yesterday, urging it to get out of Tibet. "But we're not in Tibet," wails a baffled spokesman. "Anyway, I didn't notice them. I was too busy dealing with the polar bear Greenpeace bought to our back door." Is it still there? "He eventually got hungry and went away, just before the Animal Liberation Front turned up at a nearby bank."

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