
It takes the total number of people charged with criminal offences this week in connection with demonstrations in the village of Kirby Misperton designed to prevent specialist equipment getting on to a planned test-fracking site to nine.
The five new people to be charged over events on Thursday include an 18-year-old woman accused of assaulting two police officers.
A 26-year-old woman has been charged with obstructing a police officer, while a 33-year-old man, a 35-year-old woman and a 44-year-old woman have all been charged with obstructing the highway.
All five will appear at York Magistrates Court next month.