Environmental campaign group Just Stop Oil has announced it will end its direct action protests, including throwing soup on paintings and slow marching in the streets.

The group claims its initial demand to end new oil and gas "is now Government policy", declaring itself "one of the most successful civil resistance campaigns in recent history".

In a statement, the group announced it will hold a final protest in Parliament Square on 26 April.

"It is the end of soup on Van Goghs, cornstarch on Stonehenge and slow marching in the streets," the group said.

However, they noted it is "not the end of trials, of tagging and surveillance, of fines, probation and years in prison".

Just Stop Oil claims to have kept "over 4.4 billion barrels of oil in the ground" and noted that "the courts have ruled new oil and gas licences unlawful".

The group indicated it is developing a new approach, stating: "We are creating a new strategy, to face this reality and to carry our responsibilities at this time.

"Nothing short of a revolution is going to protect us from the coming storms."