‘Love Activists’ squatters told they can return to serve Christmas lunch Police keep activists out of former RBS building in London despite high court ruling they are allowed in to feed homeless • The story of the Love Activists Share 803 inShare 1 Email Diane Taylor, Josh Halliday and Hannah Ellis-Petersen theguardian.com, Wednesday 24 December 2014 22.47 GMT Jump to comments (541) Members of Love Activists outside the former RBS building in central London. Photograph: Velar Grant/Zuma Press/Corbis A high court judge has ordered that squatters evicted from a former RBS building in central London should be allowed back in to provide a free Christmas lunch to homeless people. The squatters, calling themselves the “Love Activists”, took over the vacant building earlier this week and planned to provide a free Christmas dinner in protest at the capital’s housing crisis. Most of the activists left the building when the bailiffs turned up with a court order early on Wednesday, but two refused to leave and took to the ledge of a 10-metre-high balcony as a police officer stood nearby. Scotland Yard said the pair, a man aged 22 and a woman aged 21, came down on Wednesday evening and had been arrested on suspicion of breaching a court order. A spokesman said: “They currently remain in custody at a central London police station.” The activists had been vowing to maintain their protest, on the ledge of the first-floor balcony of the grade II-listed building on the corner of Charing Cross Road and St Martin’s Lane, during Christmas day. But on Wednesday evening a high court judge amended the injunction evicting them to allow them to re-enter solely for the purpose of “preparation, serving and participation in a festive Christmas lunch for homeless people” on Christmas Day."
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