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But Swampy claimed the tunnellers have been prevented from fixing the water leaks into the tunnel in a video taken underground today.
He said: We urgently need help. We need people to really shout and get HS2 to do the right thing. They’ve made our tunnel unsafe. They’ve stopped the water control we had in place where we were catching the rainwater on the roof. They’ve taken that away and that means we’ve just been inundated with water in the tunnel. They need to help us make the tunnel safe again. We are now not getting the air supply that we need to our tunnel. We’ve got an inundation in our tunnel.
A teenager holed-up in secret tunnels below Euston Station in protest at the HS2 high-speed railway is the daughter of an eccentric millionaire who owns a Scottish island.
Blue Sandford, 18, proudly posted last night a picture of herself in the illegal underground burrow, declaring ‘I put the crime in criminal’.
The environmental campaigner is the one of the children of Roc Sandford, a wealthy landowner and publisher.
Mr Sandford, a proud supporter of her and Extinction Rebellion, recently gave two daughters Christmas presents made out of rubbish found on his Inner Hebridean isle of Gometra. The businessman, who identifies as non-binary on his website and uses the pronoun They had made the reclaimed items into art and wrapped them in old newspaper.
Their efforts have so far infuriated bailiffs trying to remove them from underneath gardens near Euston Station.
And coming from such a wide spectrum of backgrounds, each bring a different set of skills to the protest.
But the authorities warned last night they could be putting their own lives at risk if they did not crawl out of the tunnels.
The National Eviction Team said: The unlawful activists appear to have put themselves in danger of a further tunnel collapse, and potentially of intercepting nearby gas and water pipes, leading to risks of suffocation, flooding and drowning.
Here MailOnline takes a closer look at the five behind the tunnels: