‘The end of the world is no defence’

Three XR protestors who glued themselves to a DLR train at Canary Wharf and claimed it was the only way to save the planet were convicted of obstructing the railway today (weds). Mark Ovland, 34, Luke Watson, 30, and Cathy Eastburn, 52, glued themselves to a DLR train that had stopped at Canary Wharf station on 17 April. They admitted obstructing the train during the so-called ‘April uprising’ but insisted they were trying to bring about change in the government’s…