Music by The Clash was used to deprive last year’s Climate Camp protest in Medway of sleep, a new report by the Lib Dems has claimed.

Playing loud music was just one of the underhand tactics used by officers to combat the environmental protesters in Hoo last August, according to the report, which has been published by David Howarth, Liberal Democrat Shadow Justice Secretary, with the climate camp legal team.

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