In a statement this morning, the campaign group said it will pause its campaign of civil resistance, after blocking the M25 motorway at morning rush hour for four days in a row from Monday, November 7 until Thursday, November 10 🛣️
At 6.30am, activists were joined by people from Animal Rebellion who climbed onto the overhead gantries of the M25 in multiple locations and in both directions, causing police to halt traffic 🚨
🚨Despite the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) calling off national rail strike action, a Tube strike is still set to hit the London Underground today on Thursday, November 10
🚇The dispute is separate to the national rail strikes as Tube workers are striking in a dispute over:
Today marks six years since a tram derailed at Sandilands Junction, killing seven local people on their way to work and injuring more than 60 people
Dane Chinnery, 19, Philip Logan, 52, Philip Seary, 57, Dorota Rynkiewicz, 35, and Robert Huxley, 63, all from New Addington, and Mark Smith, 35, and Donald Collett, 62, from Croydon all died at the scene