Extinction Rebellion protestors are convicted of blockading national newspaper printing press

Six Extinction Rebellion protesters have been found guilty of blockading a national newspaper printing press in a demonstration that cost publishers more than £1million.    The activists stopped 3.5million newspapers reaching readers when they used bamboo structures to block trucks from leaving the Newsprinters printing works in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, on September 4. Caspar Hughes, 49, of … Read more

JD Sports bracing for bruising investor rebellion

JD Sports bracing for bruising investor rebellion after it was slammed for handing ‘inappropriate’ special bonuses to chairman Peter Cowgill By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 13 June 2021 | Updated: 21:59 BST, 13 June 2021 JD Sports is bracing for a bruising investor rebellion after it was slammed for handing … 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

Judge rejects appeals by Extinction Rebellion activists to have criminal damage convictions

Two climate change protestors who glued themselves to the security gates of a coal mining company saw their appeals against conviction thrown out by a judge. Shulamit Morris Evans, 24, and Angela Ditchfield, 42, launched the three hour protest during Global Coal Management’s (GCM) annual general meeting in Cavendish Square, central London, on December 28, … Read more

Judge rejects appeals by Extinction Rebellion activists to have criminal damage convictions

Two climate change protestors who glued themselves to the security gates of a coal mining company saw their appeals against conviction thrown out by a judge. Shulamit Morris Evans, 24, and Angela Ditchfield, 42, launched the three hour protest during Global Coal Management’s (GCM) annual general meeting in Cavendish Square, central London, on December 28, … Read more

Extinction Rebellion deliberately causing criminal damage at protests to get jury trials

Extinction Rebellion fanatics are deliberately causing at least £5,000 of criminal damage at protests to get jury trials as they believe they’ll stand a better chance of acquittal Extinction Rebellion deliberately causing criminal damage to get a jury trial Anyone who causes at least £5,000 of damage can be brought before a jury Protestors believe … Read more

Extinction Rebellion deliberately causing criminal damage at protests to get jury trials

Extinction Rebellion fanatics are deliberately causing at least £5,000 of criminal damage at protests to get jury trials as they believe they’ll stand a better chance of acquittal Extinction Rebellion deliberately causing criminal damage to get a jury trial Anyone who causes at least £5,000 of damage can be brought before a jury Protestors believe … 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