A protester clutching a dog climbed the clocktower at King’s Cross train station in London before unfurling a banner about Iran.
The demonstrator, sitting near a banner that read: “Iran belongs to its people” and wearing a black t-shirt emblazoned with the words: “no to war”, scaled the structure at around 8am on Tuesday and was brought down shortly before midday.
Firefighters went up in a cherry picker in an attempt to talk to the activist, eventually persuading him to hand over the dog and allow it to be brought to the ground around three hours into the stand-off.
Onlookers cheered as the animal came safely down, and the protester agreed to come down shortly before midday.
A spokesman for British Transport Police said officers had been called to the station to “reports of a person in a precarious position”.
A cordon was put in place around the tower, where the protester could at times be seen standing up on the ledge where he was perched.
He packed his banner away shortly before midday, and was brought to the ground in the cherry picker.
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