Greta Thunberg is coming to Bristol for a youth strike march

Climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg is coming to Bristol.

The 17-year-old will march through the city and give a speech as part of a Bristol Youth Strike For Climate demonstration next Friday (February 28).

Thunberg founded the youth strike movement in 2018 after she sat in solitude outside the Swedish Parliament building.

Millions of students across the world have since participated in strikes held in cities such as London, Paris and Madrid - as well as here in the West Country.

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Thunberg’s visit to Bristol will mark her first return to the region since setting sail from Plymouth for a United Nations summit in New York last year.

She is expected to give a speech to strikers gathered on College Green after marching through the city centre.

The march is due to start from College Green at 11am.