Four people have appeared in court in Scotland to deny causing a breach of the peace in connection with the protest that held up the men’s elite road race for an hour on Sunday at the UCI World Championships.
Protesters glued themselves to the road surface during the protest, which happened on the B818 road near the Carron Valley Reservoir in Stirlingshire.
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Rebecca Kerr, aged 28, Romane Moulin, 28, Catriona Roberts, 21 and Ben Taylor, 29, each pleaded not guilty to causing a breach of the peace when they appeared at Falkirk Sheriff Court yesterday, reports STV News.
Papers filed with the court allege that they glued themselves to the road surface, chained themselves together, set off powder cannons, refused to leave the site when asked to by police, and that they conducted themselves in a disorderly manner as well as causing the race, eventually won in Glasgow by Mathieu van der Poel of the Netherlands, to be stopped.
Sheriff Charles Lugton released all four on bail, imposing a special condition that bans any of the quartet from attending any other events associated with the UCI International Cycling World Championships, which end on Sunday.
Anti-fossil fuels campaign group This Is Rigged claimed responsibility for Sunday’s intervention, which came around 80km into the race, which began in Edinburgh, and said that they were protesting against the sponsorship of the sport by petrochemicals companies.
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The group has previously carried out a protest at the nearby Grangemouth oil refinery, which is owned by Ineos, sponsor of the Ineos Grenadiers WorldTour team whose rider Michal Kwiatkowski, the sole Polish representative in the race, sported the company’s logo on his kit.
A pre-trial hearing – or diet, in Scots law – has been fixed for 10 October, and will be followed by an intermediate diet on 23 October ahead of the trial, which is due to start on 8 November.
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While I always have lights on day and night and wear fluro, I have a friend that wears all black all the time and doesn't use lights ever. His...
A sad case, and one with no winners. The driver can thank her lucky stars that the cyclist wasn't more seriously injured and that the court was...
Bloody hell... How are you doing now?
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No, the Ebay lights have been around for several years, this Lezyne light just appeared.
They shouldn't worry - the second part of the "tariff" refrain is "they can make it in US and they'll do very well".
"At the going down of the sun, it will get in our eyes and cause us to crash into things."
Been living in the area thirty years now and Brixton Cycles (and local riders wearing their famed Rastafarian colours jersey) has been an iconic...
Indeed - but again these are perhaps questions we should keep asking. Even if the immediate answer is "well we are where we are" or "how on earth...