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Bailiffs today began evicting anti-HS2 protesters who secretly dug a 100ft tunnel network under a makeshift camp near London’s Euston Station with the help of veteran activist Swampy. The HS2 Rebellion activists scaled cranes and clambered onto wooden platforms in the trees in Euston Square Gardens early this morning as enforcement officers moved in to … Read more
Bailiffs from HS2 today began evicting protesters from a makeshift camp near London’s Euston Station who had spent months secretly digging a dangerous 100ft tunnel. HS2 Rebellion activists climbed on top of cranes as enforcement officers moved to evict the environmentalists from the Tree Protection Camp in Euston Square Gardens, which was set up in … Read more
Swampy and pals dig a tunnel to stop HS2: Activists spend months secretly digging shaft 100ft below Euston station to thwart their eviction from makeshift protest camp HS2 Rebellion spent months digging an underground tunnel near Euston Station Among members are campaigner Blue, 18, and environmentalist ‘Swampy’ Group set up ‘Tree Protection Camp’ in Euston … Read more
New doubts over future of HS2 as report calls for eastern leg of the project to be SCRAPPED A National Infrastructure Commission report has warned there is not enough money to complete HS2 and other planned rail upgrades It advises the £86bn earmarked for rail improvements should be spent on more popular routes in the … Read more
Bailiffs abseiling from a crane removed veteran eco-warrior ‘Swampy’ from a bamboo tower today built to delay construction on HS2. Protesters erected the tower holding British activist Dan Hooper, 47, in a London river to block a bridge for a road through a forest for the multi-billion pound train project. Two black-clad officials suspended from … Read more
HS2’s first 558ft-long tunnelling machines have arrived in the UK in more than 1,000 parts. The two contraptions were transported from Germany to a construction site in Hertfordshire near the M25. They will be assembled over the coming months before they start digging the high-speed railway’s Chiltern tunnels in spring next year. To dig the … Read more
Veteran eco-warrior ‘Swampy’ has again returned to campaigning – to sit in a 30 foot tall bamboo tower in the middle of a river to protest against the HS2 rail line. The activist, 47, re-emerged in October this year following a ‘quiet ten years’ out of the limelight. Now Swampy – real name Daniel Hooper … Read more
A HS2 worker has been filmed kneeling on the neck of a protester who was allegedly catapulting carrots into a work site of the high-speed rail scheme. Footage shows the worker with his knee on the neck of the hooded man, whose head is pinned against the floor, during the incident at the site in … Read more
A HS2 worker has been filmed kneeling on the neck of a protester who was allegedly catapulting carrots into a work site of the high-speed rail scheme. Footage shows the worker with his knee on the neck of the hooded man, whose head is pinned against the floor, during the incident at the site in … Read more
Eco-warrior Swampy has denied an aggravated trespass charge over a treetop protest against the HS2 rail line. Swampy, real name Daniel Hooper, is accused of climbing trees and staying in Jones’ Hill Wood in Wendover, near Aylesbury, Bucks, with other protestors for four days. The 47-year-old was pictured camped 30ft up a tree last month … Read more