ANTI-FRACKING protesters are continuing their delaying tactics as a protest held up vehicles at the Third Energy site in Kirby Misperton on Thursday.

A roadside assistance vehicle and two tankers were delayed by a protest at the gates of the site from 10.50am.

Police officers facilitated the action which saw around seven people stand in the road to delay the vehicles leaving the site.

The protestors were required to move by police after 20-minutes and passing traffic was not disrupted.

Meanwhile, the campaigners who held up a tanker on Kirby Misperton's Main Street for several hours on Wednesday have been charged in connection with climbing on a lorry and given bail conditions to stay away from the area.

The two men, aged 56 and 28, have been released on bail with a condition not to be within 1.5 miles of the hydraulic fracturing site, an area which includes the village of Kirby Misperton.

A 27-year-old woman has also been charged with wilfully obstructing the road during the same incident.

She has been released on unconditional bail.

All three will appear at York Magistrates Court next month.