HS2

Why is HS2 eco-warrior camp STILL standing 13 days into tunnel protest?

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A Tory backbencher has led calls for the immediate removal of the ‘dangerous’ anti-HS2 campsite in Euston, including wooden shacks which cover a 100ft tunnel network – after bailiffs first started evicting eco-warriors protesting the controversial £98billion rail project 13 days ago.  Six HS2 Rebellion activists including veteran environmental campaigner Swampy, real name Daniel Hooper, … Read more

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

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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

HS2 protester locks himself in tunnel below Euston Square Gardens

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The son of a island-owning millionaire Scottish laird turned anti-HS2 eco-warrior has locked himself inside a tunnel below Euston Square Gardens as bailiffs dig their own shaft as part of efforts to remove at least six activists who have spent eight days underground.  The demonstrator, known as ‘Lazer’, attached himself to the bottom of a … Read more

Swampy’s son, 16, claims his ‘proud’ mother is ‘worried’ but ‘knows he’s safe’ in HS2 tunnels

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The 16-year-old son of veteran eco activist Swampy, who is holed up with his father in tunnels under Euston, said his mother was ‘really proud’, but ‘worried’. Rory Hooper said being in the cramped burrows protesting against HS2 was ‘more fun than he thought’. And he revealed he was in daily contact with his mother … Read more

Swampy speaks from inside tunnel on THIRD day of HS2 rail link protest

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Swampy, the leader of Euston Five tunnellers holed up below London protesting HS2, admitted today ‘I never thought I’d do this again’. The veteran activist, 48, is among the gang currently hiding in the ground campaigning against the £98billion high-speed railway. He has been underground with Dr Larch Maxey, 48, and Scott ‘Scotty’ Breen, 47, … Read more

Who are the Euston Five? Teacher among people trying to stop HS2

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The gang of at least five activists who have halted the £98billion HS2 project with a series of secret tunnels include a geography teacher and an ex-drug runner prison fugitive.  Their efforts have so far infuriated bailiffs trying to remove them from underneath gardens near Euston Station. And coming from such a wide spectrum of … Read more

Sleepless HS2 protesters claim they are victims of ‘torture’ from sleep-stopping bailiffs

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An activist protesting in secret tunnels below Euston Station against the HS2 high-speed rail-line accused bailiffs of torture as they worked to try and remove them. The man understood to be Lazer Sandford – real name Lachlan Blaze – is the brother of fellow tunneler Blue Sandford, 18. Others inside the burrows are Scott Breen, 47, Larch … Read more

Heiress, 18, whose millionaire father owns an island is in HS2 protest tunnels

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A teenager holed-up in secret tunnels below Euston Station in protest at the HS2 high-speed railway is the daughter of an eccentric millionaire who owns a Scottish island. Blue Sandford, 18, proudly posted last night a picture of herself in the illegal underground burrow, declaring ‘I put the crime in criminal’. The environmental campaigner is … Read more

JANE FRYER: Swampy’s tunnel vision over HS2. The protest has more than a hint of The Great Escape

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Of all the places you might choose to start constructing a secret underground tunnel network, a muddy stretch of grass between Euston station and a busy six-lane road in the centre of London is surely low on the list. But for two months – the entrance hidden beneath a ramshackle wooden tower – a team … Read more