Big Ben protest ‘put lives at risk’

A bare-footed protester scaled Big Ben and clung onto the landmark draped in a Palestine flag for 15 hours, a court heard. Daniel Day, 30, sparked a major emergency response when he climbed part of the 96-metre-high Elizabeth Tower at the Palace of Westminster on 8 March last year. ‘Any fall from the height he was at could have killed him or indeed any person trying to get him off the tower,’ said David Matthew, prosecuting. Day, of Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex,…