Pensioner’s day trip to London cost taxpayer £3,000

Two pensioners travelled from Frome in Somerset to spray a Home Office building with orange paint in London have escaped jail. Philippa Clarke, 75, and Ruth Ann Cook, 70, were part of a group which targeted MI5, the Bank of England and News and News Corp on Halloween last year. The veteran protestors admitted attempting to cause criminal property to the Home Office building in Marsham Street, Westminster. Just Stop Oil said they chose these buildings because they represent the…