Two women charged over Magna Carta protest in London

Rev Sue Parfitt, 82, and Judith Bruce, 85, took hammer and chisel to document’s glass case at British Library

Two women in their 80s have been charged with criminal damage after the glass around Magna Carta at the British Library was attacked.

The Rev Sue Parfitt, 82, from Bristol, and Judith Bruce, 85, from Swansea, were arrested on Friday morning and have been charged with criminal damage, the Metropolitan police said.