Just Stop Oil protesters use hammer to smash Magna Carta display case

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The pair, both in their 80s, used a hammer and chisel to attempt to break open the protective enclosure around the historic document on Friday morning.

Judy Bruce, 85, and Reverend Dr Sue Parfitt, 82, tried to smash the glass surrounding the Magna Carta at the British Libraryprotesters, who are both in their 80s, smashed the glass around the Magna Carta at the British Library on Friday.

The pair then held up a sign reading: “The Government is breaking the law” before gluing themselves to the display. Ms Bruce said: “This week 400 respected scientists - contributors to IPCC reports, are saying we are ‘woefully unprepared’ for what’s coming: 2.5 or more degrees of heating above pre industrial levels.

It was issued in June 1215 and was the first document to put into writing the principle that the King and his government were not above the law.

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