Protestor scales massive building crane to unfurl Black Lives Matter banner in east London ‘and plans to stay there for several days’ Police were called to Hallsville Road in Canning Town at around 7.30am today Officers remain at the scene after a man climbed a crane next to a building site The protester has unfurled … Read more
An anti-HS2 campaigner who handed himself to police after spending 11 days in tunnels beneath Euston Station has been ordered to stay away from all HS2 sites. Lachlan Sandford, 20, known as Lazer, was taken into police custody after he voluntarily left the network of tunnels beneath Euston Square Gardens in central London on Saturday. … Read more
A 17-year-old girl is set to appear in court tomorrow morning after she was arrested as she left a network of secret tunnels near Euston Station. A number of activists from the HS2 Rebellion Group have now spent 12 days in the elaborate underground network to protest the £98billion HS2 project. The first to leave … Read more
Anti-lockdown protestor howls and bursts into tears as police arrest him for ‘Covid rule breaches’ ahead of London demo An anti-lockdown protester today wailed and burst into tears during arrest Three people have been arrested ahead of an anti-shutdown protest in London Demonstration led by Piers Corbyn is due to meet outside King’s Cross station … Read more
A teenage Extinction Rebellion protester has climbed a crane vowing to stay put on a gantry outside the crane’s cab at 108 feet high, until he has ‘mild hypothermia’. Alex Sidney, 17, scaled the crane on Duke Street, in Norwich, early on Saturday morning carrying a sleeping bag, supplies and several banners promoting the climate … Read more
Rory, the 16-year-old son of veteran eco warrior ‘Swampy’ joins his father a sit-in protest against the HS2 rail line as the activist is out of retirement after a ‘quiet ten years’. The activist whose real name is Daniel Hooper has joined an HS2 rebellion group which has been holding out against eviction from woodland … Read more
An 18-year-old accused of pushing a statue of slave trader Edward Colston into Bristol Harbour is set to escape with a police caution – if he attends a meeting on other monuments, his lawyer has revealed. The bronze memorial to the 17th Century slave merchant was pulled down during a Black Lives Matter protest on … Read more
Black Lives Matter protestor sues police because they ordered her to cover up her ‘F*** Boris’ T-shirt Jessie-Lu Flynn had attended a BLM demonstration in central London on June 3 Later, she was challenged by police officers for wearing a ‘F*** Boris’ T-shirt Ms Flynn is now suing police for blocking her right to express … Read more
An elderly Kurdish protester was within touching distance of Boris Johnson’s Jaguar after running past police as the Prime Minister left the Houses of Parliament, before he was finally tackled to the floor by a female officer. An activist from a group demonstrating outside Parliament’s gates in Westminster ran towards Mr Johnson’s Jaguar XJ Portfolio … Read more
The Black Lives Matter protester who ‘tagged’ the statue of Winston Churchill said he did it because Britain’s greatest Prime Minister was a ‘confirmed racist’ who cared more about colonialism than black people. The masked young man, who is being searched for by the Metropolitan Police today for the vandalism in Parliament Square, claimed that … Read more