3 h. ago Beckenham Place Park evacuated as boy, 16, goes missing after swimming in lake

Officers were called just after 3pm on Friday to reports that a boy, 16, got into difficulty in the water

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5 h. ago Beckenham Place Park evacuated as boy, 16, goes missing after entering water

Officers were called just after 3pm on Friday to reports that a boy, 16, got into difficulty in the water

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40 h. ago Busy London station to shut for 10 months to allow broken escalators to be replaced

Cutty Sark DLR will close on May 31 but reopen before 2026 London Marathon

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42 h. ago Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that's the price of protest in Britain today | George Monbiot

It seems to me that whatever the charges facing the activists at the Quaker meeting house raid, their fundamental crime is dissentThe faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.Last week, six young women were having tea and biscuits in the Quaker meeting house in Westminster. Twenty police officers forced open the door and arrested them on conspiracy charges. Had the police discovered a plot to blow up parliament or to poison the water supply? No. It was an openly advertised, routine meeting of a protest group called Youth Demand, discussing climate breakdown and the assault on Gaza.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnistThe Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison, was published in paperb...

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60 h. ago Busy London train station to shut for 10 months to allow escalators to be replaced

Cutty Sark DLR will close on May 31 but reopen before 2026 London Marathon

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64 h. ago Youth Demand vows to press on with 'disruptive' protests as Met accused of 'traumatising women' during arrests

Youth Demand held a rally in central London on Tuesday night - days after more than 30 police officers made six arrests at Quaker meeting house

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3 d. ago Youth Demand say they will press on with 'disruptive' action in London after pro

It came days after members of the group were arrested at a Quaker meeting

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3 d. ago Heavy criticism of Met Police at rally after arrests of Youth Demand supporters

Around 100 people gathered outside the University of London’s Senate House Library in central London on Tuesday evening.

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3 d. ago London protests LIVE: Youth Demand accuse Government of 'trying to shut us down' at pro

The ‘Shut It Down For Palestine’ rally has begun in Bloomsbury

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3 d. ago Who are Youth Demand? The protest group plotting to 'shut down' London

Who are Youth Demand? The protest group plotting to 'shut down' London  Yahoo News Canada

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3 d. ago Police raid at Quaker meeting condemned as 'unprecedented level of police repression'

More than 20 police officers raided a meeting of the activist group Youth Demand at the Quaker Meeting House in Westminster, which has been condemned as an 'aggressive violation' by the Quakers in Britain

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4 d. ago Who are Youth Demand? Protest group at centre of Quaker house arrests threaten month of disruptive action

Youth Demand will be holding open rallies every week during April

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4 d. ago Gaza activists planning to ‘shut down’ London this April in mass civil disobedience campaign

Gaza activists planning to ‘shut down’ London this April in mass civil disobedience campaign  The Jewish Chronicle

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4 d. ago Who are Youth Demand? The protest group threatening to 'shut down' London for a month

Protest group Youth Demand has threatened to 'shut down' London with a month of co-ordinated action starting on Tuesday

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5 d. ago Raid on Quaker Meeting House, mass arrests by London Metropolitan Police of Youth Demand members

Raid on Quaker Meeting House, mass arrests by London Metropolitan Police of Youth Demand members  WSWS

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5 d. ago Quakers condemn Met Police over ‘aggressive’ arrests at ‘shut down London’ protest meeting

More than 30 officers made the arrests at a welcome talk held in Westminster

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5 d. ago Quakers in Britain condemn six arrests of Youth Demand at meeting house

Quakers in Britain condemn six arrests of Youth Demand at meeting house  BBC.com

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5 d. ago Quakers condemn arrests of Youth Demand activists at meeting house

Quakers condemn arrests of Youth Demand activists at meeting house  BBC

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5 d. ago Met Police arrest six activists at Quaker meeting house over ‘shut down London’ plot

More than 30 officers made the arrests at a welcome talk held in Westminster

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5 d. ago Dozens of police officers batter down door of pacifist Quaker meeting house to arrest activists 'discussing climate change and Gaza'

More than 30 police officers made the arrests at a welcome talk held at the Westminster Meeting House at around 7.30pm on Thursday, March 27, according to Youth Demand.

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