BP's (BP.L) annual shareholder meeting on Thursday was marred by campaigners protesting against the oil giant's role in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. 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 by security guards and police, as a brass band played in the background. "They will not let me in," said Diane Wilson, the woman who was photographed smeared in oil at a congressional hearing where BP's former chief executive Tony Hayward testified. "I came to talk about what is going on in the Gulf." Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said BP's security advisers had refused entry to the meeting on fears they could disrupt the meeting.
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