Climate protester pictured around the world ‘can’t afford a train ticket’

Two climate change protesters who glued themselves to the frame of John Constable’s masterpiece The Hay Wain will face trial for criminal damage. Hannah Hunt, 23, and Eden Lazarus, 22, staged the protest at the National Gallery as part of the Just Stop Oil campaign. They were held on July 4 after allegedly sticking large sheets of paper over the 1821 Suffolk landscape of what activists called ‘an apocalyptic vision of the future’. The image featured scenes of scorched trees,…

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