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Two climate activists have to damage one of the world's oldest and most famous documents – the Magna Carta. The women both in their 80s. They went to the British Library in London and the glass case that contained the Magna Carta. The women used a hammer and a chisel to try to break the glass. Police have the women with criminal damage. The British Library said its security staff, ", to further damage to the case". It added that the "Magna Carta itself undamaged". The women are from the Just Stop Oil protest group. They up a sign that read: "The government is the law." The women also themselves to the case.

The Magna Carta is a royal charter that was to by King John of England on the 15th of June 1215. It that everyone equal under the law. It also that everyone should a fair trial, with a jury. Historians say the Magna Carta was the foundation for the development of Western democracy. In particular, it the U.S. Constitution. The two protestors said: "The Magna Carta is…of great importance to our history, to our freedoms and to our laws. But, there will no freedom, no lawfulness, no rights, if we climate breakdown to the catastrophe that is now ." They added: "Our government is breaking its own laws against climate change."