44 h. ago What to know about Harvey Weinstein's #MeToo retrial with jury selection set to get underway

Five years after Harvey Weinstein was convicted of rape and hauled to jail in handcuffs, the disgraced movie mogul returns to a Manhattan courthouse Tuesday for a new trial covering the very same allegations

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60 h. ago Just Stop Oil M25 protester Roger Hallam kept in jail over 'media interest'

Roger Hallam is a co-founder of environmental protest groups Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion

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5 d. ago Moment US ballerina Ksenia Karelina embraces fiancé as she returns from Russian jail

A US ballerina jailed for 12 years in Russia after donating $51 to a charity supporting Ukraine reunited with her fiancé in an emotional embrace as she landed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Thursday, 10 April.

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5 d. ago Unruly Ryanair passenger assaulted two people while drunk on flight from Tenerife

Catherine Bellis, 44, was on board a flight from Tenerife to Liverpool when she assaulted two people while drunk - and has been warned she may face jail when she returns for sentencing

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8 d. ago Just Stop Oil protesters deny criminal damage after latex poured on Tesla robot

Nigel Fleming, 63, and Catherine Nash, 74, denied causing £2,696.40 in criminal damage after the incident at a Westfield Tesla store.

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1 week ago What next for climate activism now Just Stop Oil is ‘hanging up the hi

After three years, thousands of arrests and a state crackdown on protests, the group is ending direct action after a polarising campaignOn the morning of Valentine’s Day 2022, Hannah Hunt stood at the gates of Downing Street to announce the start of a new kind of climate campaign, one that would eschew mere protest and instead move into “civil resistance”.Last week, three years and thousands of arrests later, in a neat tie-up exemplary of Just Stop Oil’s (JSO) love of media-savvy stunts, Hunt went to the same spot again – this time to announce the group would be “hanging up the hi-vis”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Baby P’s mother Tracey Connelly makes new bid for freedom 18 years after son's torture death

Connelly returned to jail last September for breaching licence conditions

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2 w. ago Just Stop Oil's craziest protests: from spray painting stonehenge to storming the West End

A final protest has been set for next month as the organisation reflects on “a new strategy”

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2 w. ago The most controversial Just Stop Oil protests as climate group ceases direct action

Just Stop Oil has announced it will stop direct action and hold its final protest in April

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2 w. ago The most controversial Just Stop Oil actions as climate group ceases protests

The group is know for tactics such as targeting major infrastructure, sporting events, West End productions and heritage sites.

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2 w. ago Just Stop Oil claims it is 'hanging up the high vis' and brags the government has caved to its demands after years of protests that have infuriated the British public

Just Stop Oil has said it is going to stop carrying out its campaign of stunts.

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2 w. ago Just Stop Oil to end disruptive protests with final demonstration date announced

The environmental campaign group has planned a final protest in London on 26 April

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3 w. ago Whining jailed Just Stop Oil activist, 78, complains about prison and reveals the 'insulting' thing she was asked to do

A 78-year-old grandmother who was imprisoned for joining in a Just Stop Oil protest on the M25 has blasted the conditions of the female prison she spent Christmas in.

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3 w. ago Whining jailed Just Stop Oil activist, 78, complains about prison and  reveals the 'insulting' thing she was asked to do

A 78-year-old grandmother who was imprisoned for joining in a Just Stop Oil protest on the M25 has blasted the conditions of the female prison she spent Christmas in.

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3 w. ago Just Stop Oil activist, 78, who was jailed for scaling M25 gantry during climate protest moans about 'insulting' thing she was asked to do in prison

A 78-year-old grandmother who was imprisoned for joining in a Just Stop Oil protest on the M25 has blasted the conditions of the female prison she spent Christmas in.

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3 w. ago Just Stop Oil activist, 78, who 'had only ever climbed an apple tree' before scaling M25 gantry during climate protest reveals 'insulting' thing she was asked to do in prison

A 78-year-old grandmother who was imprisoned for joining in a Just Stop Oil protest on the M25 has blasted the conditions of the female prison she spent Christmas in.

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3 w. ago Just Stop Oil protester, 78, returned to jail as no tag fitted her, on her life inside

Gaie Delap on the shocking failures in healthcare and support she saw in jail, and how she coped with being there“I was behind bars for Christmas, new year and my birthday on 10 January,” said 78-year-old Gaie Delap, who was sent back to prison in December when the right-sized tag for her wrist could not be found.The Just Stop Oil protester who had been released under Home Office detention curfew said she was “furious and frustrated” over her treatment and return to prison. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Just Stop Oil protester, 78, who was returned to jail as no tag fitted her, on her life inside

Gaie Delap on the shocking failures in healthcare and support she saw in jail, and how she coped with being there“I was behind bars for Christmas, new year and my birthday on 10 January,” said 78-year-old Gaie Delap, who was sent back to prison in December when the right-sized tag for her wrist could not be found.The Just Stop Oil protester who had been released under Home Office detention curfew said she was “furious and frustrated” over her treatment and return to prison. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Greenpeace loss will embolden big oil and gas to pursue protesters: ‘No one will feel safe’

As Trump pushes ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda, Greenpeace verdict offers startling outlook for environmental activismA pipeline company’s victory in court over Greenpeace, and the huge damages it now faces, will encourage other oil and gas companies to legally pursue environmental protesters at a time when Donald Trump’s energy agenda is in ascendancy, experts have warned.On Wednesday a North Dakota jury ruled that three Greenpeace entities collectively must pay Energy Transfer, which was co-founded by a prominent Trump donor, more than $660m, deciding that the organizations were liable for defamation and other claims after a five-week trial in Mandan, near where the Dakota Access pipeline protests occurred in 2016 and 2017. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Watch: Just Stop Oil protesters who planned to glue themselves to Heathrow Airport runway caught by police

This is the moment several Just Stop Oil (JSO) protesters who planned to glue themselves to the runway at Heathrow Airport were caught by police.

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