AND FINALLY

A group of friends from Brighton off for a weekend camping trip in a hired minibus had their plans disrupted at the last minute when their driver turned up to present his driving license. The hire company told him that he could not have the van as he was a “dangerous criminal” and the company was worried about what the van could be used for.

 The hire company in Brighton told him they had been visited by police from Nottingham who warned the company about him – arising from when he’d previously hired a minibus sometime before being one of the 114 arrested when gathering at a school under suspicion of conspiracy to close down a power station (SchNEWS 672). 

SchNEWS has heard of a similar story relating to last year’s Climate Camp – a hire company in Hastings was told by police not to rent vans to a climate activist – but the hire company told the police where to go saying they knew the man and he was one of their best customers.

After all where would minibus rental companies be without their bread and butter patrons? In police state Britain we guess the protest market is thriving at the moment...