British DJ Patrick Topping is set to make a highly anticipated return to Edinburgh later this year with an extra-special one off performance.
22.04.2023 - 12:43 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A retired vicar vowed to carry on protesting despite being jailed for taking part in a climate change demonstration which brought the City of London to a standstill. Former Vicar of Rochdale the Rev Mark Coleman was sentenced to five weeks in prison for his part in October's Insulate Britain roadblock.
The 63-year-old was one of a number of protesters who sat in the road at the Bishopsgate junction during a two hour protest calling for homes are insulated to be low energy by 2030. But a defiant Mr Coleman vowed the sentence wouldn't stop him taking part in future 'civil disobedience'.
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He said: "I want to state that I acted to protect human life, to draw attention to the death and destruction caused by rising emissions and the impacts of cold damp homes on the health of the citizens of our country. I had learned of the effects of fuel poverty when I worked for the charity Age Concern in the 1980s. Later, in the Liverpool and Rochdale parishes where I served as parish priest, I saw the misery caused by these uninsulated homes and the fuel poverty and debt that often ensues. “
"In the ordination service priests are told that they should ‘resist evil, support the weak, defend the poor, and intercede for all in need’. For me of course it has moral authority. Poor people are more likely to die prematurely. I have tried to be true to my ordination vows. I see it as part of my vocation as a priest, to continue to resist until the government acts. I expect that this civil resistance will involve sitting on the public highway again."
The Daily Mail reports David Matthew, prosecuting, told inner London Crown Court, 'thousands of people' were affected by the
British DJ Patrick Topping is set to make a highly anticipated return to Edinburgh later this year with an extra-special one off performance.
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