A go-slow convoy from Jarrow to London next month is set to come straight through the middle of York.

Trucker Tony Adams, from Tockwith, said today that lorries, buses, cars, tractors - "even pushbikes" - would be joining the cavalcade in protest at high fuel taxes.

Mr Adams, one of the protest organisers, who was involved in the convoy around York Outer Ring Road in September, said it would come down the A19 en route to the capital. It would reach York on either November 11 or 12. "It will go straight through the city," he said.

Once reaching London, the protest would culminate with a rally in Hyde Park, and protesters would "camp out" in the park until Tony Blair agreed to speak to them.