Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #filton, aggregated by home.social.
Student accused of murdering housemate said he ‘injured himself climbing a tree’
Zach Coughlan has admitted manslaughter but denies murdering Jamie CollinsClaire Hayhurst and Rod Minchin, Press Association and Phoebe…
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/143449/
https://www.europesays.com/britain/143449/ Student accused of murdering housemate said he ‘injured himself climbing a tree’ #Courts #Filton #SouthGloucestershire #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.europesays.com/gbr/gls/3126/ Student accused of murdering housemate said he ‘injured himself climbing a tree’ #Courts #Filton #Gloucestershire #SouthGloucestershire
https://www.europesays.com/videos/110974/ Jury shown CCTV of moments before fatal stabbing of a student in Filton | ITV West Country (West) #Agriculture #Avon&SomersetPolice #Bristol #BristolCrownCourt #cattle #CCTV #courts #Crime #DEFRA #DunsterCastle #farming #Filton #itv #ItvNews #ITVNewsInFull #NationalTrust #Paintings #Somerset #SouthGloucestershire #stabbing
https://www.europesays.com/videos/110111/ A court hears the 999 call made by a student after he stabbed his housemate| ITV West Country (West) #999Call #AndyBurnham #Avon&SomersetPolice #Bristol #BristolCityCouncil #Cheese #exports #Filton #Iran #itv #ItvNews #ITVNewsInFull #market #Mexico #MoneyLaundering #NationalCrimeAgency #PrimeMinister #RAFFairford #raids #RentRises #Somerset #SouthGloucestershire #StNicholasMarket #stabbing #YouthParliament
https://www.europesays.com/videos/110037/ A court hears the 999 call made by a student after he stabbed his housemate| ITV West Country (West) #999Call #AndyBurnham #Avon&SomersetPolice #Bristol #BristolCityCouncil #Cheese #exports #Filton #Iran #itv #ItvNews #ITVNewsInFull #market #Mexico #MoneyLaundering #NationalCrimeAgency #PrimeMinister #RAFFairford #raids #RentRises #Somerset #SouthGloucestershire #StNicholasMarket #stabbing #YouthParliament
“Three Years On, Britain Prosecuted the Solidarity”
by David Miller in Al Mayadeen English
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The [Al-Aqsa] Flood exposed the genocidal nature of the settler colony, and it exposed the British state that supplies it. The streets are larger than any lobby. But the licences still run. The placard cases are a backlog, not an acquittal. #Filton defendants are serving terror-enhanced sentences for damage a jury was not asked to call terrorism. #Sultana has said the word. The #Greens have voted the word. A tribunal has protected the word. The colony, the factories, the spares pool, and the proscription are still there. There is much work to be done to begin the vital task of materially dismantling Zionism in the Levant and in the #UK
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/three-years-on--britain-prosecuted-the-solidarity
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #Gaza #PalestinianGenocide #Zionism #EradicateZionism #DecolonizePalestine #AlAqsa #Repression #InJustice
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Rigged trials, media blackouts, and manipulated juries are the new normal in the U.K.
#censorship #justice #palestineaction #democracy #instro #filton
Palestine Action group ‘armed with kebab skewers attacked Elbit Systems guards’
Jurors were told a security guard suffered a 4cm laceration to his headSam Hall, Press Association and Alex…
#Bristol #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #Courts #Crime #Filton #GreatBritain
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1233455/
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1233455/ Palestine Action group ‘armed with kebab skewers attacked Elbit Systems guards’ #Bristol #Britain #Courts #Crime #England #Filton #GreatBritain #UK #UnitedKingdom
Road closures plan for Bristol Rovers matchdays
Several streets near the Memorial Stadium would be affected 17:51, 02 Oct 2026Updated 17:51, 02 Oct 2026 A…
#Bristol #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Bishopston #BristolCityCouncil #BristolRoversFC #Britain #Filton #GreatBritain #Horfield #Traffic&Travel
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1233074/
Rolls-Royce invests £90m in Filton factory as part of UK expansion
The works to its South Gloucestershire site will be completed in 2031 12:06, 29 Sep 2026 Rolls Royce,…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #Rolls-Royce #Filton #Premium #SouthGloucestershire
https://www.europesays.com/britain/133773/
https://www.europesays.com/britain/133773/ Rolls-Royce invests £90m in Filton factory as part of UK expansion #Filton #Premium #RollsRoyce #SouthGloucestershire
The #Filton25 are charged with involvement in a #directaction on August 2024 to disable weapons at a facility belonging to Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, #Elbit Systems, at #Filton , near #Bristol .
https://filtonactionists.com/the-filton4-appeal-terrorist-sentences-press-conference/
Who are #Elbit ?
https://filtonactionists.com/who-are-elbit-systems/
MEE report
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-action-activists-appeal-terror-sentencing
#Gaza #militaryindustrialcomplex #PalestineAction #solidarity
Fear piles of rubbish will return to Bristol neighbourhood as students come back for new academic year
People who live near the University of West of England campus in Filton are bracing themselves for the…
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1166276/
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1166276/ Fear piles of rubbish will return to Bristol neighbourhood as students come back for new academic year #Bristol #BristolCityCouncil #BristolLive #Britain #Education #England #Filton #GreatBritain #Premium #SouthGloucestershireCouncil #UK #UnitedKingdom #UniversityOfBristol #UniversityOfTheWestOfEnglandBristol
(19th August 2026)
“ Cooking Pasta, Giving Rides
None of the eight defendants were on the factory premises when the raid happened.
But prosecutors used joint enterprise powers, normally reserved for gangland murders, to pursue them however tenuous their connections to the break-in.“
https://www.declassifieduk.org/jury-refuses-to-convict-seven-palestine-action-organisers-for-israel-arms-factory-raid/
#Bristol #directaction #Elbit #Filton #gaza #Militaryindustrialcomplex #PalestineAction
Despite the best efforts of the British security state, a modicum of justice has prevailed in the latest Palestine Action kangaroo court! The Zionist-aligned system is unlikely to take this setback lying down!
“JURY REFUSES TO CONVICT SEVEN PALESTINE ACTION ‘ORGANISERS’ FOR ISRAELI ARMS FACTORY RAID”
by Dania Akkad in Declassified UK
“Jurors in an eight-week trial of Palestine Action activists who allegedly planned a raid on an Israeli-owned arms factory were discharged on Wednesday.
It came after they told the court they had been unable to reach verdicts for seven of the defendants.
An eighth defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty of criminal damage by a majority of nine to one jurors”
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Britain #PalestineAction #Trial #Elbit #Jury #Verdict #Filton #Bristol #Starmer #Labour #MetPolice #Israel #ZionistLobby
An early release to patrons of $3+/month of our chat with Andy and Maya of @netpol (and other projects), updating the audience on the group's recent reports on police conduct during anti-racist demonstrations in the UK, the endangered fate of the #SpyCops Inquiry, the status of the #Filton #PalestineAction cases and more!
https://www.patreon.com/tfsr/posts/anti-repression-167149423
"The judge in the case of #Filton defendants sentenced as terrorists is trying to jail their lawyer for even informing jurors of their legal right to acquit. The same judge also ordered that jurors must not be informed that he would impose #terrorism sentences if they returned a guilty verdict."
⭕La police #Britannique a arrêté plusieurs manifestants anti-génocide devant la prison de #Bristol (HMP Bristol) après un rassemblement commémorant le deuxième anniversaire de l'action de #Filton. Les manifestants brandissaient des pancartes en soutien aux activistes impliqués.
⭕La police #Britannique a arrêté plusieurs manifestants anti-génocide devant la prison de #Bristol (HMP Bristol) après un rassemblement commémorant le deuxième anniversaire de l'action de #Filton. Les manifestants brandissaient des pancartes en soutien aux activistes impliqués.
La manifestation commémorait le 6 août 2024, date à laquelle six activistes de #Palestine-Action avaient pénétré dans l'usine #Elbit-Systems de #Filton et endommagé des dizaines de drones destinés à l'armée d'occupation #Israélienne à #Gaza.
#Filton defence barrister fighting prosecution
https://realmedia.press/lawyers-fight-back/
Rolls-Royce to build huge £100m factory in Filton to support defence industry
It will be used to design, assemble and test engines 05:56, 24 Jul 2026 Rolls Royce, Filton(Image: Simon…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #Rolls-Royce #ArmedForces #Filton #ministryofdefence
https://www.europesays.com/britain/89642/
https://www.europesays.com/britain/89642/ Rolls-Royce to build huge £100m factory in Filton to support defence industry #ArmedForces #Filton #MinistryOfDefence #RollsRoyce
⭕Une manifestation nationale s'est déroulée devant l'usine #d'Elbit-Systems à #Filton, près de #Bristol.
#Elbit-Systems est responsable de 85 % des drones armés déployés dans la bande de #Gaza occupée et utilisés contre les civils.
Via : #just.barold
⭕Une manifestation nationale s'est déroulée devant l'usine #d'Elbit-Systems à #Filton, près de #Bristol.
#Elbit-Systems est responsable de 85 % des drones armés déployés dans la bande de #Gaza occupée et utilisés contre les civils.
Via : #just.barold
“‘A STRAY DOG WITH A TODDLER’S ARM’: HOW ISRAELI ATROCITIES FUELLED PALESTINE ACTION”
by Dania Akkad and Phil Miller in Declassified UK
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“Two women have told a court how they felt compelled to join the Palestine Action protest group after watching ‘a live-streamed genocide’ of Israeli attacks in Gaza.
‘I would see mothers scrape up tiny pieces of their children,’ 53-year-old Hannah Davidson told jurors at the Old Bailey [London Central Criminal Court] this week. ‘I saw a stray dog with a toddler’s arm in its mouth.’”
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How Britain Became a Country Full of Terrorists
Around a year ago, then-U.K. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper informed Parliament of her intention to proscribe the group…
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/75614/
https://www.europesays.com/britain/75614/ How Britain Became a Country Full of Terrorists #Britain #Filton #palestine #PalestineAction
Jurors convicted the previously acquitted activists of criminal damage in a rigged retrial presided over by a biased pro-genocide puppet judge who hid relevant details of the case from the jurors.
After the verdict, the judge unilaterally upgraded the criminal damage charges to terrorism, blindsiding the jury and making it the first time in U.K. history that criminal damage charges have been treated as terrorism
Home Office ads on the Overground explaining the new rules that have been brought to bear in the #Filton trials
Four posters:
New Rules.
One - From now on, the government will decide if you are a terrorist, not a jury.
Two - If you only broke the law to stop someone being killed we'll ban you from explaining that to the jury.
Three - The government will decide which crime you were charged with after your conviction.
Four - Before your trial you can be held in jail for longer than you would spend in prison if convicted.
See #FILTON for details.
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Made these Home Office posters informing citizens about some new rules that are being enforced in the #Filton case.
Print files can be downloaded here:
https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/single-post/filton-25
GOWER: ‘My daughter could be sentenced as a terrorist for damaging drones’ — Pennard mum speaks out ahead of June sentencing
A Gower mother says she is frightened for her daughter’s future after learning she could be sentenced as a terrorist next month — despite never having been charged with a terrorism offence.
Emma Kamio, from Pennard, says her daughter Leona — known as Ellie — was convicted of criminal damage at the Filton, Bristol plant of Elbit Systems, an Israeli-owned defence technology company. Ellie Kamio, 30, is one of four people due to be sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court on 12 June.
The case has drawn significant attention after reporting restrictions, which had prevented the details from being publicly known, were lifted by a judge at Woolwich Crown Court.
The four defendants were convicted of damaging quadcopter drones inside Elbit Systems’ Bristol research and development facility. Under Section 69 of the Sentencing Act 2020, a judge can apply a “terrorist connection” as an aggravating factor at sentencing — even where defendants have not been convicted of a terrorism offence.
Supporters of the four say the jury was not told this would apply when they returned their verdicts, and that had they known, they might have reached different conclusions.
A spokesperson for campaign group Defend Our Juries said: “The public will be astonished to learn that in the British justice system a protester can now be convicted of criminal damage for disrupting an arms factory, and then be sentenced as a ‘terrorist’ without having been convicted of terror charges and with this having been kept secret from the jury.”
The practical consequences of a terrorist connection finding at sentencing could be significant. The four defendants have already spent 18 months on remand — equivalent to nearly four years under standard sentencing guidelines, the upper limit for criminal damage.
With a terrorist connection applied, they would be required to serve their full sentence and could only be released early if a parole board was satisfied they had renounced their beliefs. Upon release, they could be placed on a terrorism licence for up to 15 years, requiring them to register new devices, bank accounts, emails and relationships with police.
Anti-war activist Angie Zelter, from Knucklas in Powys, who has previously been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, said the case was “of the utmost importance for the general public to be aware of.”
Mr Justice Johnson, who presided over the trial, ruled that the terrorist connection provision applied because the defendants were seeking to influence the Israeli government by restricting its access to weapons. The ruling has been disputed by the defendants’ supporters, who argue that a conscientious motive would normally be considered a mitigating factor rather than an aggravating one.
The judge also restricted what defence barristers could say to the jury during the trial. Five of the six defence barristers withdrew before closing speeches following those restrictions. A court order has now lifted the reporting ban on those events.
All defences on the charge of criminal damage were ruled inadmissible before evidence was heard, meaning the defendants were not permitted to argue that their actions were legally justified. Following the guilty verdicts, the prosecution did not apply to revoke bail — but the judge did so anyway, returning the defendants to prison, where they remain.
Elbit Systems describes itself as one of Israel’s largest defence electronics companies. The Filton facility is a research and development hub. The company has been the subject of sustained protest activity in the UK in recent years. The action for which the four were convicted took place before Palestine Action — a group associated with protests at Elbit facilities — was proscribed as a terrorist organisation.
The case is not the first time the conflict in Gaza has brought legal proceedings to the UK courts with a Wales connection. An Irish man living in Burry Port was detained by the Israeli navy on his 75th birthday after a Gaza aid ship was seized in international waters, while a Swansea humanitarian was among Britons aboard a Gaza flotilla that prompted MPs including Gower’s Tonia Antoniazzi to raise safety concerns.
The sentencing is due to take place on 12 June.
Related coverage
Burry Port man detained by Israeli navy after Gaza aid ship seized in international waters
An Irish man living in West Wales was held on his 75th birthday after the vessel was intercepted.
Swansea humanitarian among Britons on Gaza flotilla as MPs raise safety concerns
A Swansea resident was aboard the aid vessel as politicians called for action.
Gower MP issues update on Swansea humanitarian detained with Gaza flotilla
Tonia Antoniazzi’s intervention after the flotilla was intercepted.
My childhood brushes with ghost lore
Despite writing about supernatural folklore, I rarely think about my childhood brushes with ghostly stories. I thought I might rectify that here—by reflecting on two examples of ghost lore I was exposed to in my youth.
Before I begin, I should point out that children’s folklore is just as vital and dynamic a phenomenon as its adult equivalent. Children’s Folklore: A Source Book (1999) is one example of a text that documents the folkloric creativity of children (as opposed to their passive receptivity). The book shows that wherever children come together, they form what folklorists call “folk groups.” The only criteria for the existence of such a group is that “two or more people. . . share something in common—language, occupation, religion, residence”; that they “share ‘traditions'”; and that they have the opportunity to meet face to face.
The Grey Lady
I’ll start with my childhood experience of belonging to a large “folk group” at my prep school, Tockington Manor, in South Gloucestershire. Every child in the school belonged to this folk group, because everyone, at some point, learned about the Grey Lady who haunted the manor’s halls. The boarders at the school were terrified of this lady: they said she wandered the manor at night—the spirit of a nurse who’d fallen from a skylight when the building served as a hospital during the First World War. I don’t remember much about this nighttime revenant, but she’s clearly a variant of a folkloric figure found at boarding schools everywhere: the Grey, White, Black, or Brown Lady.
In my school, older students, already initiated into the ghostly mystery, passed on stories about the drab-colored lady to the younger children, who did the same for the incoming class. I can only assume that telling stories about the Grey Lady allowed us to share anxieties in a fixed, personified form, which helped us adapt to unfamiliar surroundings. It also mythologized the building’s space, especially for boarders—those who couldn’t leave. Separated from their family homes, they created bonds and associations through the emotions that ghost stories evoke.
The story of the Grey Lady may have been one of the most memorable aspects of our folk group. But one story doesn’t create a culture. We also played games like marbles and conkers and had a shared language (words like cave—Latin for “beware”—were used to signal that a teacher was coming). Sometimes we sneaked out of school to gather in an old stone quarry, a place now dense with ivy-covered trees. The aura of this place—which we called simply “Quarry”—will forever remind me of the childhood capacity to create mythological worlds in spaces dominated by adults.
The Yellow Lady
The second example of supernatural storytelling from my childhood occurred during a trip to a Catholic boys’ camp in the summer of 1991. There too the sharing of ghostly legends created belonging among the boys. Despite sharing a tent with my brother, a cousin, and members of my cousin’s family, I felt unsettled in my new surroundings, and I remember how powerfully the nighttime telling of ghost stories allowed us to bond through fear.
The only story I remember clearly (because it terrified me) was inspired by a local landmark. Visible from the camp was a house that glowed an eerie yellow at night. The sight of this building alone would be enough to inspire a haunted house tale. But in our case, the color became detached from the building, and we gave it to a supernatural figure who roamed the grounds at night. Apparently, a mysterious revenant called the Yellow Lady haunted that house, and she visited the meadow where we slept. Pricking up her disturbingly large ears to listen for wakeful boys, the Yellow Lady prowled the rows of tents, determined to steal a child.
Although I remember thinking at the time that the Yellow Lady must have been a ghost, she differs in one important way from the Grey Lady mentioned earlier. While the latter was merely a scary presence that never interacted with students, the Yellow Lady was relational, embodying the discipline of the adult world (“no talking after lights out”). Her eerie color and super-sensory abilities—a result of her inhumanly large ears—suggest that she was a kind of supernatural bogeywoman, perhaps even close to a fairy.
The extreme effectiveness of this Yellow Lady legend meant that all of us had trouble sleeping that night. The next day we rushed to mass, hoping to find protection in proximity to a sacred ritual. The impulse was in keeping with much ghost lore, where holy symbols ward off supernatural threats.
Interestingly, while researching “Yellow Lady” stories (to see how commonplace they are), I came across a blog post in which the writer talks about a Yellow Lady story he learned at a camp run by monks. He then turns the tale into a literary short story—an embellishment, perhaps, of a fragmentary tale like mine. It seems to me that the writer’s camp may even have been the one I attended. Either that or the Yellow Lady haunts a number of such camps.
Haunted houses and witch houses
Besides my encounters with the Grey and Yellow Ladies, the only other ghost lore I can remember from my childhood are stories about haunted houses. These were always abandoned homes in the neighborhood, their shattered windows revealing darkness inside, the absence of family life. Repeating things we’d heard or inventing stories on the spot, we called these houses “haunted” or the former resort of “witches”—words that described the rupture in our sense of what a home should look like. One of these houses sat at the corner of Charborough Road and Dunkeld Avenue in Filton, Bristol (I can still picture its dilapidated state). Another was on a road branching off from Charborough Road: they said that if you looked into its broken, upstairs window, you might see a witch looking back. (The latter is a vague memory that may even have been my own thought.)
Considering all this lore, it seems to me that ghosts fill the gaps where social meaning decays, whether through separation from home, abandonment of a home, or maladjustment in a place that’s not yet fully home. When I consider these crucial functions, I understand why empirical approaches to ghostly “phenomena” bore me: they arguably fail to understand ghosts at all.
Read about more ghost lore here.
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⭕Environ 70 militants se sont rassemblés aujourd'hui devant l'usine #Elbit_Systems_UK à #Filton dans le cadre de manifestations coordonnées à travers le #Royaume-Uni. Via : #Bristol247
Afterthe #Filton 6 victory i was tentatively asking whether tagging #PalestineAction would now cease to deem me a #terrorist. It seems the day has finally come (can't imagine #keirstarmer appealing).
“#Filton #Acquittals Demolish #Starmer and #Cooper #Lies About #PalestineAction”
by Craig Murray in Craig’s Substack
“As the trial finished at Woolwich Crown Court of the six Palestine Action activists who entered the Filton factory to destroy Israeli killer drones, Starmer, Cooper, Lammy & Mahmood are left bereft of a single guilty verdict in the case on which they relied heavily to label Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation”
https://open.substack.com/pub/craigmurrayorg/p/filton-acquittals-demolish-starmer