YOUNG people are planning climate strike in Taunton next month.

Students will skip lessons to march between the county and district council offices to demand urgent action to save the planet.

The town will be one of thousands of locations worldwide taking part in the Fridays For Future movement demonstration on March 13.

Organiser Oscar Glancy said: "This will be Taunton’s first climate strike of 2020 and we're going to be having a much shorter march route than usual between the two council offices in town to demand youth input into the climate emergency plan that Somerset County Council is currently finalising.

"Our climate is in breakdown in front of our eyes – flash floods, forest fires, storms, droughts, crop failures, food shortages and famines are ravaging our planet like never before and quickly becoming the norm.

"Irreversible climate change is on the horizon. Humanity stands on a cliff and the actions we take or fail to take in the next few years will decide the future of all humanity.

"As a young person, my future and the future of my generation looks bleak, but with the rapid rise of movements like Extinction Rebellion and the climate strikes, I feel so much hope as well in what is a really terrifying time to be growing up."

The Taunton climate strike meets up at Castle Green at 11am on Friday, March 13 and will include a samba band.

Another climate strike will be held in the town on Friday, April 3.