Two women have denied causing £52,000 worth of damage after private jets were sprayed with orange paint by Just Stop Oil activists at Stansted Airport.

Jennifer Kowalski, 28, and Cole Macdonald, 22, pleaded not guilty to causing criminal damage and interfering with national infrastructure.

Ms Macdonald, of Baker Street, Brighton, East Sussex, and Ms Kowalski, of Williamson Avenue, Dumbarton, in West Dumbartonshire, were not asked to enter pleas to a third charge of aggravated trespass.

Just Stop Oil had said the private jet of popstar Taylor Swift was at the Essex airport, but police said it was not there at the time.