India, March 12 -- Two Just Stop Oil protesters have been arrested after pouring orange powdered paint over a robot at a Tesla shop in west London, the Metropolitan Police said.

Retired teacher Catherine Rennie Nash, 74, and former tax adviser Nigel Fleming, 63, climbed on to a podium display in the store in Shepherd's Bush on Wednesday morning.

The pair then poured paint over the robot and unfurled a Just Stop Oil banner, in what they said was a protest against Tesla owner Elon Musk and billionaires "jeopardising climate science" and threatening democracy.

A Met Police spokesperson said: "Two people have been arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage after police were called to a shopping centre in Ariel Way, Shepherd's Bush, a...