Reclaim The Land!

Sunday 4th July. 100 police, security guards and Tarmac workers faced 500 activists. Several people broke the Department of Transport’s injunction, which had been gained two days before in the High Court at a cost of several hundred thousand pounds. Along with 500 other demonstrators the injunctees entered the site. Earlier they had formed a human chain around the site perimeter for a minute’s silence as a Requiem for the Lost Landscape.

Those who broke the injunction may now face prison sentences and some may choose to go on a hunger strike. Others may go on non-custodial hunger strikes in support. All this will need support.

The Department of Roads said during the High Court hearing that it will be pursuing a claim for £1.9 million in damages. The injunctees may be held "jointly and severally liable" - ie one of the injunctees may be held liable for the actions of others they may never even have met. This is a peculiar judicial system we are operating under....

Contact Twyford Down Alert on 0703 611 561 for further information on the continuing Twyford Down campaign.