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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 products for the remaining protesters in the tunnels under Euston Square Gardens. A spokesperson for HS2...

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PROTESTERS inside a tunnel by London’s Euston station have accused HS2’s eviction team of “flagrantly breaking human rights” and putting their lives in danger.   A group of at least six activists have been underground since Tuesday in tunnels constructed over several months to withstand an eviction from Euston Square Gardens.  Protesters set up camp in the small central-London park last summer in a bid to stop the next stage of HS2 construction.  In a video filmed early this morning, protester Larch Maxey said that enforcement agents “are still flagrantly breaking human righ...

Gina Long Neil Sands with the two novels he has written during lockdown - Credit: Andy Abbott What do you do if you are a theatrical show producer, less than a week away from the start of a 40 date tour, when lockdown closes all the theatres and eventually the tour is cancelled? Well in the case of Neil Sands, former heavyweight professional wrestling champion, (who fought the giant American The Mighty Quinn for the world heavyweight championship, in Ipswich back in 1981), stand-up comedian, and publican, you write not just your first novel, but your first two. Time For Justice and Pursuit Of...

In a decade’s time, passengers on the new high-speed trains hurtling out of London will get just a burst of daylight and a glimpse of the Colne Valley landscape before disappearing back underground through the Chiltern Hills. Today, in that three-mile stretch between future tunnel openings to the north-west of the capital, the £98bn HS2 project’s scale, engineering might and cost are all evident: both at the vast work site scooped out beside the...