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The 16-year-old had spent 22 days beneath Euston Square Gardens in central London.

One of the environmental protesters who occupied a self-dug tunnel for weeks in Euston, central London, to protest the HS2 project appeared at…

Scott ‘Scotty’ Breen was arrested after allegedly spending 19 days in one of the tunnels at the protest site in Euston Square Gardens.

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...

First published on Fri 5 Feb 2021 11.36 EST An environmental campaigner who earlier evaded an eviction team has voluntarily left tunnels dug near Euston station, a spokesperson for campaign group HS2 Rebellion has said. Lazer Sandford, whom bailiffs had been trying to extract from a “lock on” at the bottom of a down shaft for multiple hours on Friday, voluntarily left the network early on Saturday evening. The group spokesperson said Sandford came out in exchange for lights and hygiene prod...

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...

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...

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 - real name Lachlan Blaze Sandford - is believed to be the brother of fellow tunneller Blue Sandford, 18. Others inside the burrows are Scott Breen, 47, Larch Maxey, 48, and Swampy himself Daniel Hooper, also 48.  In a video shared from inside the burrows by HS2 Rebellion Lazer appeared to have dif...

Scott Breen, the highest ranked union member in the department. Explains Grimm, "The deputy chief of the fire department is not like deputy chief of the police.  In the fire department, the deputy chief can be number three. Its a union job, with overtime benefits." Grimm said that the assistant chiefs position was negotiated before she arrived, but was never filled.   "The position  evolved in negotiations several years ago, and we agreed to fill it this year," she said. "It had already been...