‘I had to glue myself to that jet’

A former gold-medal paralympic cyclist who glued himself to British Airways plane during the Extinction Rebellion protests will claim his actions were ‘necessary,’ court heard today. (Fri) Visually impaired James Brown, 55, clambered on top of the aircraft at London City airport on 10 October and live-streamed his actions on Facebook. He appeared at Southwark crown court using a white support cane to deny causing a public nuisance. Brown, of Exeter, has won two gold medals and a bronze competing…