A VIDEO published by climate protestors appears to show two demonstrators being rescued from a tunnel they had dug in Essex.

The video, from Just Stop Oil, is understood to have been shot near the Navigator Oil Terminal off Oliver Road in Grays.

It appears to show firefighters at the scene of a protest where a tunnel had been dug under a road. 

Two protestors were understood to be in the tunnel and can be heard talking to rescuers.

Just Stop Oil, an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion, has been staging protests outside oil depots since last Thursday to raise awareness of climate change.

Essex Police says it has made another 20 arrests in connection with the demonstrations taking place in Grays in the past 24 hours.

This included a group of 17 people who were stopped by officers on London Road.

They were found to be carrying items which police believe would have been used to cause criminal damage.

All 17 were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit criminal damage.

Officers made three other arrests after stopping cars in the Grays area.

It brings the total number of arrests in connection with the protests in Essex to 192.

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A police spokesman said: “Of all the sites originally affected, all but one are now reporting a complete business as usual function and we continue to engage with a small number of people who remain at one site.

“Our aim is to bring this situation to a swift and safe conclusion.”

Essex Police Assistant Chief Con Rachel Nolan added: “Our response to these protests have now entered the fifth day.

“Thankfully, we have been able to keep the disruption caused to the affected businesses to a minimum and all but one are now reporting business as usual.

“There is a small number of people who continue to protest, and we are working to resolve this as quickly and – most importantly – as safely as possible.

“We are continuing to work alongside our key partners on this issue and our priority has always been to bring this incident to a safe conclusion and to bring the areas affected back to normality as quickly as possible.

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“A large element of that is our proactive response, which again has yielded results in the last 24 hours, with 20 arrests made.

“As a result, no new protests have been reported on any sites in the area.

“I want to again emphasise that policing is not anti-protest; we will always endeavour to facilitate protest where we can.

“However, we must be robust when laws have been broken, that is what our community expects of us. That means making arrests when other options have been exhausted and, where we can, pursuing action against those who we believe have broken the law.

“We are in dialogue with the Crown Prosecution Service, as well as other forces, as we seek to achieve that.”