Occupy the river

News in Brief

The Oxford and Cambridge boat race was stopped on 7 April when an ‘anti-elitist’ campaigner, Trenton Oldfield, swam in front of the boats in a scene reminiscent of the 1913 Derby when suffragette Emily Wilding Davison deliberately threw herself in front of the king’s horse.

The boat race had to be restarted.

Oldfield was arrested and charged with causing ‘harassment, alarm or distress’ under the Public Order Act.