A group of Shropshire climate campaigners have been found guilty of their involvement in a protest which 'occupied' a South Wales coal mine.
Extinction Rebellion protestors at the coal mine last year. Picture: Extinction Rebellion
They included Jamie Russell – 48, from Well Meadow Drive, Shrewsbury, Pamela Williams – 74, from Van, near Llanidloes, Stephen Jarvis – 67, from Torrington Lane, Bideford, Sarah Wilding – 56, from High Street, Aberystwyth, Rosalind Pears – 58, from Lower Whitelands, Radstock, Michael Bastow – 54, from Victoria Road, Oswestry, and Dougall Purce, 59, from North Street, Shrewsbury.
During the trial the court had been told that the disruption over the 20 hour protest had cost the coal mine £40,000. "It would be comic if it wasn’t so serious. Politicians may talk-the-talk on net zero, yet they keep expanding the UK’s planet-wrecking coal mines.
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