‘Two more Van Goghs souped’

Three Just Stop Oil activists hurled soup at Vincent van Gogh paintings in a ‘revenge attack’ after two fellow protestors were jailed for the same publicity stunt, a court heard. Stephen Simpson, 61, Phillipa Green, 24, and Mary Somerville, 77, threw Heinz vegetable soup at two ‘Sunflowers’ masterpieces at the National Gallery on Friday. They denied destroying or damaging property when they appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today. Their actions are said to have damaged the two paintings’ frames -…