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Reverend Dr Sue Parfitt and Judy Bruce smash the glass cabinet containing the Magna Carta, May 10, 2024
JUST STOP OIL activists smashed a glass cabinet containing the Magna Carta today before gluing themselves to its enclosure, holding a sign which read “The government is breaking the law.”
The activists are demanding the British government commit to an emergency plan to end the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030.
Reverend Dr Sue Parfitt, 82, an active Anglican priest from Bristol, and Judy Bruce, 85, a retired biology teacher from Swansea, entered the British Library and broke the glass enclosure that surrounds the Great Charter — a foundation document for parliamentary powers.
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