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Macy Tyler, 22, lives in a Redbridge Council-provided flat in Basildon, Essex where conditions are so bad she reportedly says she'd rather live on the street than spend any more time there

At least eight journalists have been detained while covering Just Stop Oil protests in recent weeks. Their press credentials ignored, the journalists (including an LBC reporter, a documentary filmmaker and a photographer) were held for hours, fingerprinted and DNA-swabbed. Their phones and cameras were confiscated and – in at least…

Three journalists were arrested in Hertfordshire this week prompting widespread calls for press freedom

Home Secretary blasts protesters as ‘extremists’ in speech to police chiefs

LBC journalist Charlotte Lynch was reporting on a Just Stop Oil protest yesterday morning when she was approached and questioned by two police officers. She showed them a press card, but was arrested

‘In order to defend your friend, you don’t need to trample on somebody else,’ daytime host said

Radio journalist Charlotte Lynch, documentary maker Rich Felgate and photographer Tom Bowles have all been detained for reporting on the protests.

Officers from Hertfordshire police arrested an LBC reporter as well as a photographer and filmmaker covering action by Just Stop Oil on the M25.

Chair of National Police Chiefs’ Council says officers are under ‘enormous pressure’ to stop disruption

Hertfordshire Police said it is requesting an independent force to examine the arrests

Charlotte Lynch, of LBC, had been reporting on the activists from a road bridge over junction 21 of the M25, in Hertfordshire, on Tuesday.