Protestor scales massive building crane to unfurl Black Lives Matter banner in east London

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

Final protestor is removed from anti-HS2 protest tunnels in Euston after 31 days underground 

The final anti-HS2 activist in a network of tunnels in London‘s Euston Square Gardens has been removed after 31 days underground. A lone protestor, known only at this stage as Bradley, was the last man remaining underground trying to stop the high-speed rail line going ahead, after high-profile campaigner Swampy finally left the site yesterday … Read more

Female HS2 protestor, 17, to appear in court after being arrested on leaving Euston station tunnels

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

Coronavirus UK: Anti-lockdown protestor bursts into tears as police arrest him

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

Extinction Rebellion protestor, 17, climbs 108ft crane in Norwich clutching sleeping

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

Black Lives Matter protestor, 19, faces jail after admitting trying to set fire to Union Flag

A Black Lives Matter protester faces jail after he admitted attempting to set fire to a Union Jack flag on the Cenotaph during a demonstration in London. Astrophel Sang, 19, was arrested after footage emerged on social media of him twice attempting to use a lighter to set the flag alight in Whitehall on June 7.      The … Read more

Swampy and Son:16-year-old HS2 protestor joins his father living up a tree

The 16-year-old son of veteran eco-warrior ‘Swampy’ has joined his father in a sit-in protest against the HS2 rail line after the activist returned to the front line of environmental activism after a ‘quiet ten years’.   The activist, real name Daniel Hooper, has been joined joined an HS2 rebellion group along with son Rory which … Read more

Black Lives Matter protestor sues police who ordered her to cover up her ‘F*** Boris’ T-shirt 

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

Protestor who threw himself in front of Boris Johnson’s car is ex-Kurdish freedom fighter

Diyari Kurdi, 48, is the man who threw himself in front of Boris Johnson’s car yesterday  The protestor who threw himself in front of Boris Johnson‘s car has said he is ‘very sorry’ and never meant to hurt anyone – as it is revealed he is a former Kurdish freedom fighter who fled Iraq after a … Read more

Defiant Black Lives Matter protestor says he desecrated Churchill’s statue

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