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Bailiffs are continuing to try to remove anti-HS2 protesters from tunnels by Euston station, after a demonstrator attached himself to the structure. A group of at least six activists have spent more than a week in a network of tunnels beneath Euston Square Gardens. Dr Larch Maxey, one of the demonstrators, said on Thursday that bailiffs had dug a parallel “down shaft” and connected it to the protesters’ one. Eviction efforts continued on Friday as bailiffs tried to remove another environmental campaigner from a “lock-on” at the bottom of a down shaft. The demonstrator, Lazer Sandfor...

Activists dig in to defy eviction from London tunnel AFP 2/5/2021 AFP © Millie BOARDMAN Activist Blue Sandford in a tunnel near London's Euston Station, dug and occupied by environmental protesters campaigning against the construction of a high speed rail line Underground in a tunnel dug near one of central London's busiest roads, Blue Sandford says she is ready for anything. The 18-year-old has become the most prominent face of a protest against the construction of a high-speed rail link that has earned her comparisons to Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg. �...

Environmental campaigners have dug a network of tunnels beneath Euston Square Gardens.

The mother of a teenage HS2 protester is worried for his safety after he joined his father, the veteran activist Swampy, in tunnels near Euston station.Swampy, whose real name is Daniel Hooper, 47

BBC News Published media captionProtesters filmed themselves inside the tunnels Activists staging an underground protest in central London are in a "very dangerous" situation and must stop tunnelling, a judge has said. Members of HS2 Rebellion have spent six nights beneath Euston Square Gardens. On Monday, the activists applied for an injunction requiring eviction teams to stop trying to remove them but this was refused by a High Court judge. The court also said protesters should tell authorities the "layout, size and engineering" of the tunnels. The activists dug the tunnels to thwart their ...