Anti-vaccine campaigners are demonstrating in Stroud town centre this afternoon, attempting to engage in conversations with pedestrians about the new lockdown and the vaccine.

In the video below, they get told to 'go home and grow up' by a pedestrian.

Whilst there is no evidence that any of the ingredients in the Covid-19 vaccines cause harm when used in such small amounts, anti-vaxxers have leafleted the high street since news of the Pfizer jab broke.

As another vaccine, Oxford/AstraZeneca, is approved and the country enters a third national lockdown, they have taken to the streets once more wearing placards.

Stroud MP Siobhan Baillie has previously called anti-vax information "dangerous, damaging and disrespectful."

Both vaccines have been approved by the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency after a rigorous series of tests and trials. 

Almost 1m vaccine doses have been administered across the country and only two people, both with a history of severe allergic reactions, reacted adversely to the jab.

Dr Richard House, from Stroud, who is part of the so-called Vax Information Hub on the high street, has defended vaccine sceptics. 

“People from 66 to 83 years of age would not be standing on the high street in the middle of winter unless we felt incredibly passionately about something and what we feel passionately about is there is no open democratic debate happening,” he said.

In the video they get told to 'go home and grow up' by a pedestrian.

Read tomorrow's paper or visit the website tomorrow evening for a feature on anti-vax activities in Stroud.