Power bid at No 10

A call for solar panels to be installed at 10 Downing Street was made by students and teachers from North Yorkshire.

The group handed in a report written by schoolchildren on tackling climate change.

But a Downing Street spokesman said the move was not possible owing to the building’s listed status.

Front row, left to right: Julian Sturdy MP, Isabelle Duffus, James Murray, Dean Snowdon-Manga and Andrew Jones MP. Back row: John Ward-Campbell, Peter Berry and Lucy Wallace.