BP's (BP.L) annual shareholder meeting was disrupted by campaigners protesting against the oil giant's role in the Gulf of Mexico spill, while investors registered their disapproval with big votes against directors. A group of five campaigners from the Gulf, one of whom had covered themselves in a black oil-like substance, were refused entry to the meeting on Thursday by security guards and police, as a brass band -- part of another protest involving BP workers -- played in the background. "They will not let me in," said Diane Wilson, the late middle-aged woman who was photographed smeared in oil at a congressional hearing where BP's former chief executive Tony Hayward testified last June. "I came to talk about what is going on in the Gulf," she said.
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