10+ hour, 56+ min ago (707+ words) Police in Bristol who arrested 30 people for silently holding up signs said they tried to explain to them before they arrested them that what the sign said constituted a criminal offence. The mass arrest on College Green took more than three hours on Saturday afternoon as police officers arrested one protester after another and led or carried them away to waiting police vans. The protest was part of a national campaign to challenge the Government's decision back in June to proscribe the direct action protest group Palestine Action. The protesters lined up and wrote on signs the words: "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action'. Many of those being arrested told officers that the police themselves were breaking the law for being complicit in genocide in relation to Israel's military action in Gaza. A spokesperson for Avon and Somerset police…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago (1192+ words) Greenwich Council will make a contentious Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) scheme permanent despite residents on boundary roads saying they feel unsafe under the new system. The council has promised to explore mitigation measures to alleviate the concerns of those negatively impacted by the LTNs. Greenwich implemented the West and East Greenwich Neighbourhood Management Trial Scheme a year ago with the aims of reducing traffic, increasing sustainable travel and improving air quality and road safety in two areas of Greenwich. The scheme attempted to do this with camera enforced filters that restrict traffic from 7am to 10am and from 3pm to 7pm on weekdays. The council moved to make the LTNs permanent last month after it found the scheme decreased traffic throughout the entire area by six per cent and air quality in the LTN areas had slightly improved, although only by a "negligible" amount....