Mass-ive Twat
Driver found guilty of assaulting two women during a Critical Mass bike ride last year
It's not all been doom and gloom for Critical Mass cyclists this week, there's been some good news from Brighton. On Wednesday (1st) Brighton magistrates found an accountant guilty of assault for his attack on a cyclist on the 30th of September last year during one of Brighton's monthly bike rides. Merc driving berk Christikas Zantis assaulted at least six people after he and family were slightly inconvenienced by having to wait a bit for the cycle traffic to pass. Having pushed one cyclist over in strop, he then punched another woman in the face when she tried to take a photo of his first assault. There's a video of the bust up on youtube. Initially charged with four counts of assault, this was whittled down to two for the courts. He was found guilty on both of them. It gets better- not only was he fined £1750 and ordered to pay £1200 costs and compensation, but it looks like the twat will probably lose his job as well.
We caught up with one of the Critical Mass'ers he'd assaulted- “It's funny- we found out that he's been boasting online about his kick-boxing moves but seriously his punch was really shit. It was one of the worst punches I'd received in my life. Even my grandmother punched harder than that.”
Just when we were all getting to grips with fracking, another mind-blowingly stupid and dangerous form of extreme energy extraction gains momentum.
Twenty one climate activists escape jail at sentencing after shuttng down coal fired power station for seven days
Residents of Balcombe, West Sussex, warn the frackers they're ready for direct action to prevent the first exploratory well from being drilled just south of their village
It's Hove vs Gove as the education secretary aims to concrete over recreation ground in the name of God.
UPDATE: They finally coughed up. After two days of consistent hassling by activists at the Department for Transport earlier last month, during which one person got nicked, the DfT sheepishly released the previously top secret (read: problematic and embarrassing) documents about the Bexhill-Hastings Link Road.
UPDATE: They finally coughed up. After two days of consistent hassling by activists at the Department for Transport earlier last month, during which one person got nicked, the DfT sheepishly released the previously top secret (read: problematic and embarrassing) documents about the Bexhill-Hastings Link Road.
With protestors gearing up for a second round of resistance there could be 'diversions ahead' for the East Sussex County Council and the road backing scum Trinity College in the University of Cambridge.
Recent announcement by Environmental Agency grants permits to EDF aiding the production of nuclear energy at Hinkley Point C.
