What next for a man who has been arrested wearing a blanket and holding an umbrella atop a3m-tall protest structure at Trafalgar Square? This was the conundrum facing Studio Bark's Nick Newman, who was seized during an Extinction Rebellion protest in October but later let off after the Supreme Court quashed the police's blanket ban on protest. Now Astragal can reveal that Newman has been arrested again, after allegedly gluing himself to bricks he had in turn glued to the road in central London. He was participating in another XR protest, and was nicked on suspicion of obstructing a highway and causing criminal damage.
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