Tomato soup chuckers face 18 month trial wait

Two climate activists who threw a tin of Heinz tomato soup over a £76m Vincent van Gogh painting must wait 18 months to stand trial for criminal damage. Phoebe Plummer, 21, and Anna Holland, 20, were filmed opening the can of soup and launching the contents at ‘Sunflowers’ at the National Gallery during a Just Stop Oil protest. The artwork was protected by a sheet of glass and was undamaged but they are charged with damaging the frame on 14…