Police have charged 23 environmental protestors including a Newcastle councillor and an 86-year-old man, who chained themselves to a coal train and rail tracks at Sandgate.
The group blocked the way to Newcastle port for more than four hours, angry over the failed climate talks in Copenhagen.
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Our government is cowardly. Gladly some of our citizens are not. Thanks Rising Tide for taking the action we all wish we had the courage to