@GWRHelp I waited until 9.15 pm at Paddington for the 19:53 to Bristol. Announcements and staff and the GWR app indicated that my train was delayed. We all know that the Hitachi trains can run on diesel only. I am now in the Holiday Inn Express in Ealing waiting to get back to Bristol .
As Gaie's MP I tried everything I could to challenge this decision to send her back to prison - including writing to the prisons minister Lord Timpson and the probation service.
Why on earth is this government releasing violent criminals early due to prison overcrowding, but then replacing them with a 77-year-old peaceful climate protester who is clearly no threat to the public?
And why is she facing this extra punishment of being locked up, for longer than she was meant to be, and over Christmas? Not because she's broken her bail conditions, oh no no, it's because the private company responsible for fitting electronic tags couldn't find one the right size for her, and the authorities weren't willing to consider alternatives like daily check-ins at the police station.
Do we think that, perhaps, this government might be getting its priorities wrong?
An audience with the legendary Claudia Roden this evening at the Warburg Institute in London. Some great tales of the writing of The Book of Jewish Food.
Mondelēz's top-selling @oreo cookies are not only filled with rainforest destruction but also double-stuffed with broken promises to small-scale farmers. Tell the candy giant @MDLZ to change their palm oil sourcing: https://t.co/9X6PldmU5s