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Animal rights activists dressed as gannets have tucked in to spend the night on top of a Government building in the Highlands following a dramatic protest against Scotland’s controversial guga hunt.

Campaigners from Abolish the Guga Hunt scaled the side of the NatureScot offices in Inverness and chained themselves to the roof at around 4am on Friday. Earlier today the Record shared a video of two men climbing to the highest ridge above the building’s inclined glass roof as they unfurled a banner reading “Abolish the Guga Hunt”.

A model of a battered and bloodied baby gannet – known locally as a “guga” – was also placed beside them on the roof. The activists appeared to have locked themselves in place and said they intended to continue the protest for as long as possible, adding: “We will stay here for days if we have to.”