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Cold Feet star Fay Ripley, novelist and film-maker Rebecca Frayn and actress Rula Lenska joined more than 100 people to urge the Government to tackle climate change.

Children delivered a letter to Gordon Brown in Downing Street as part of yesterday's Climate Action Now protest which objects to a third Heathrow.

Mother-of-three Ms Frayn, daughter of playwright Michael Frayn, said: "We came here because climate change is happening faster than anyone predicted.

"We are a group of mothers and children who have come this evening to ask the Government to form a cross-party coalition to take climate action now. We are here because we are gravely concerned that our children's futures are in jeopardy and we think it's a matter of urgency and the clock is ticking."

Ms Lenska, 60, who has appeared in One Foot in the Grave and Footballers' Wives, added: "The Government can afford to go to war - why aren't they doing something positive against climate change."

But Matthew Knowles, of the Society of British Aerospace Companies, said the protest was misguided: "Campaigns such as this ignore the economic importance of flying, and the engineering progress being made by the aviation industry that has seen a 70 per cent cut in CO2 emissions over the past 50 years."