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4 LondraGazete.com/English Londra Gazete, 20 October 2022

TfL wins court order to

restrict Just Stop Oil protests

TRANSPORT for London has
won a court order that will re-
strict the ability of Just Stop Oil
protesters causing chaos on the
capital’s main roads.
It came hours after activists
blocked the A4 at Barons Court
Tube station for two hours on
Tuesday morning in their ongo-
RMT union announces ing campaign demanding that the
government halts all new oil and
November rail strike dates gas licences.
But the campaign group said
it would not change its tactics,
MORE rail strikes over pay and "sought to impose job cuts, more saying: “We will not be stopped
conditions will take place on 3, 5, unsocial hours and detrimental by injunctions sought to silence
and 7 November, the RMT union changes to rosters". non-violent people.”
has announced. The RMT has accused Network Two Just Stop Oil supporters
It threatens a week's worth of dis- Rail of performing a "U-turn" on who scaled the Queen Elizabeth
ruption similar to previous strikes, its pay offer: 4% this year followed II Bridge at Dartford early on
the BBC understands. by 4% next year, plus benefits like Monday morning agreed to come
RMT general secretary Mick heavily discounted travel for em- down late on Tuesday and were
Lynch accused Network Rail of "dis- ployees and their families. arrested.
honesty" in negotiations. Network Rail disputes this, and The TfL injunction was ap-
Network Rail said it had a two says it actually made an improved proved by the High Court af- Metropolitan police on Sunday already made more than 470 ar-
year, 8% pay increase deal "on the offer by extending the guarantee of ter the mayor was involved in a to discuss the disruption being rests. The injunction will make it
table ready to be put to our staff". no compulsory redundancies by a meeting with Home Secretary caused by the eco protesters. Just easier for police to take pre-emp-
In separate disputes, RMT rail further year to January 2025. Suella Braverman, Cabinet Office Stop Oil has threatened protests tive action against protesters and
workers at London Underground This time, RMT members at 15 minister Nadhim Zahawi and the every day in October. Police have to secure jail sentences.
and London Overground will strike train companies won't be joining
on 3 November. staff at Network Rail in staying
There have been a series of rail away from work.
strikes in the UK over the past But because Network Rail's signal Summer heatwave broke dozens of
months as unions have clashed with workers are involved, disruption
Network Rail, train firms and the across the rail network is expected.
government over pay and condi- Last week, Network Rail's chief UK records
tions. negotiator expressed optimism
For the latest strikes, the union about the progress of talks. The
said that Network Rail had "re- RMT has made it clear this evening TWO months after the summer broke its previous record by a ments from active weather sta-
neged" on an earlier pay offer and it does not share that view. heatwave, new data underlines whopping 6.3C. tions in the UK that had at least
the huge impact climate change is Scientists at the Met Office who 50 years of observations.
having on the UK. carried out the analysis described Records are typically broken
More than half of the UK's old- this summer's extreme tempera- by narrow margins, however, the
Santa Claus’s tomb from 1,600 est active weather stations re- tures as a "real indication of how long-functioning stations that

years ago discovered in Turkey corded their hottest day ever in our climate is changing". 40C broke their previous records this
passed
2022, according to Met Office
Temperatures
summer did so by more than 2C
data. (104F) for the first time, some- on average.
New all-time highs were set at thing "virtually impossible" The UK was not the only coun-
ARCHAEOLOGISTS in Turkey foundation of a previous basilica
believe they have found the final that was destroyed in the Middle 56 of the 109 longest standing without human-induced climate try in Europe to see temperature
resting place of Saint Nicholas, the Ages by rising sea levels in the Med- stations during the July heat- change, according to the Met Of- records shattered these past few
inspiration behind ‘Santa Claus’. iterranean. Experts conducted work wave. fice. months.
The burial spot of the saint who at the site in 2017 when they found One west Yorkshire village The data includes measure- A long-running drought, like-
died more than 1,600 years ago was gaps under the newer church’s floor ly Europe's worst in 500 years,
discovered underneath a Byzantine and spent the past few years careful- and series of extreme heatwaves
church in Turkey. ly removing the mosaic flooring to made summer 2022 the conti-
While researchers already knew reveal the ancient foundation. nent's hottest on record, accord-
that the saint’s body was buried in The church in question is located ing to the Copernicus Climate
the fourth century church in Tur- on Turkey’s southern coast, in the Change Service.
key’s Antalya province, his remains town of Demre and built in A.D. Temperatures in Portugal hit
were stolen around 700 years after 520 on top of an older church where 47C in July, the highest ever
he died, so the specific spot where Saint Nicholas served as bishop recorded that month, while in
he was originally buried remained a in the fourth century A.D. Saint France 64 different areas experi-
mystery. Now, a new excavation of Nicholas is popularly known by his enced record highs.
a church, containing several hints modern nicknames of Santa Claus, Deadly wildfires in France, Por-
including the building’s similarity Saint Nick and Kris Kringle by chil- tugal, Spain and Greece forced
to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre dren around the world. The Saint thousands of people to evacuate
in Jerusalem and the placement of who lived between 270 nd 343, is their homes.
a fresco depicting Jesus, point to it most famous for his habit of secret On average, the summer was
being Santa Claus’ burial place. gift-giving to the poor, inspiring the 0.4C warmer than the previous
The church was built on top of the modern-day figure of Santa Claus. record, only set last year.