XR protestors found guilty over press blockade that stopped newspapers from being delivered 

Six more XR protestors are found guilty over printing press blockade that stopped millions of national newspapers from being delivered About 50 members of Extinction Rebellion joined the protest last September Their actions prevented the delivery of millions of newspapers across the UK Six members were today found guilty of blocking the highway and fined … Read more

Five Extinction Rebellion protesters are convicted over printing press blockade

Five Extinction Rebellion protesters are convicted over printing press blockade that stopped millions of newspapers being delivered Three men and two women are first to be punished following demonstrations  It comes after several other activists walked free from court on a technicality  The blockades were criticised as an affront to free speech as cost millions  … Read more

Military re-enactment enthusiast shoots MUSKET into the air at Jersey blockade

A member of the Jersey Militia re-enactment group has fired a musket towards the ongoing stand-off between the Royal Navy and 100 French fishing vessels. The fishing boats are blocking access to the port at Saint Helier in a row over post-Brexit fishing rules, prompting Boris Johnson to deploy Navy vessels HMS Severn and HMS Tamar. The … Read more

Military re-enactment enthusiast shoots MUSKET into the air at Jersey blockade

A member of the Jersey Militia re-enactment group has fired a musket towards the ongoing stand-off between the Royal Navy and 100 French fishing vessels. The fishing boats are blocking access to the port at Saint Helier in a row over post-Brexit fishing rules, prompting Boris Johnson to deploy Navy vessels HMS Severn and HMS Tamar. The … Read more

Royal Navy gunships patrol sea off Jersey as 70 French fishing boats threaten to blockade harbour

Two Royal Navy gunships have started patrolling the coast off Jersey as 70 French fishing boats threaten to blockade the harbour of the British Crown dependency. HMS Severn and HMS Tamar were sent from Portsmouth ‘as a precaution’ in a major ratcheting up of the row with France over post-Brexit fishing rights. Armed with cannon and … Read more

Extinction Rebellion protesters blockade nuclear base by locking themselves onto giant plant pots

Extinction Rebellion protesters blockade Faslane nuclear base by locking themselves onto giant plant pots Environmental activists have blocked the north gate of HMNB Clyde in Scotland The naval base houses Britain’s nuclear submarines armed with Trident missiles Protesters locked onto planters have stopped all but emergency access to base XR say the action is part of … Read more

Three MORE XR protesters are cleared of trespassing over printing press blockade 

Protesters from Extinction Rebellion have been cleared of trespassing at a printing press last year when the group prevented the distribution of half a million newspapers. Demonstrators blocked the entrance of News-UK owned Newsprinters in Knowsley, Merseyside, with a blue box van and a yellow boat on a trailer last September. Newspapers affected included the … Read more

Three MORE XR protesters are cleared of trespassing over printing press blockade 

Protesters from Extinction Rebellion have been cleared of trespassing at a printing press last year when the group prevented the distribution of half a million newspapers. Demonstrators blocked the entrance of News-UK owned Newsprinters in Knowsley, Merseyside, with a blue box van and a yellow boat on a trailer last September. Newspapers affected included the … Read more

French fishermen blockade lorries carrying UK fish amid fury over ‘sham’ Brexit fishing deal 

More than a hundred French fishermen blocked trucks carrying fish from the UK on Thursday night, in a protest against a Brexit fishing deal they have dismissed as ‘a sham’.  Britain’s post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union allowed the bloc’s fishermen to keep fishing deep into British waters, but only once they had received a license. … Read more