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Environmental activist Roc Sandford explains the concerns – and pride – he feels over his daughter hiding underground to protest HS2

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 tunnel using a device made of steel and concrete around his arm.  The HS2 Rebellion group estimated today it would take several hours before the device around...

His father is being reckless and irresponsible. A rescue expert had warned that heavy rain and sleet could cause tunnels beneath Euston in London to collapse and endanger HS2 activists living in the underground passages.   Swampy has spoken about his son joining the protest, adding: To begin with, I didnt want Rory to be in the tunnel for the eviction, but he was absolutely adamant that he would stay down there with me for it. The protesters are campaigning against the £98billion HS2 railway...

Share But Swampy claimed the tunnellers have been prevented from fixing the water leaks into the tunnel in a video taken underground today.  He said: We urgently need help. We need people to really shout and get HS2 to do the right thing. They’ve made our tunnel unsafe.  They’ve stopped the water control we had in place where we were catching the rainwater on the roof.  They’ve taken that away and that means we’ve just been inundated with water in the tunnel. They need to help us mak...

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 the one of the children of Roc Sandford, a wealthy landowner and publisher. Mr Sandford, a proud supporter of her and Extinction Rebellion, recently ...

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 backgrounds, each bring a different set of skills to the protest. But the authorities warned last night they could be putting their own lives at risk if they did not crawl out of the tunnels. The National Eviction Team said: The unlawful activists appear to have put themselves in danger of a further tunnel collapse, and potentially of intercept...

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