Press Coverage

Arran Church of Scotland minister Rev John Webster was arrested again last week. John ... was one of 600 protesters demonstrating outside the Faslane submarine base on the upper Clyde.
- The Arran B

HE 77-year-old anti-nuclear protestor arrested on Monday for blockading the missile assembly plant at Burghfield....was also arrested on October 1 at an anti-nuclear protest in Faslane, Scotland.
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I am wondering whether police and prosecutors have given enough attention to the International Criminal Court Act (Scotland) 2001 ....The new law means that incitement to genocide is now an offence in Scottish law see Part 1, Sections 1 and 7(b)

Islington Gazette, 27 September 2007.
Cheeky protestors shed their clothes outside Faslane naval base to protest against nuclear weapons in Scotland.
Paula Hollings of Upper Holloway said, "The four

Anti-nuclear campaigners from Plymouth helped to mark the end of a year of protest at a submarine base in Scotland.
- Plymouth Evening Herald, Oct 2, 2007

THE Ettrick and Yarrow Parish Church minister was arrested this week while campaigning in an anti-nuclear protest.
- Selkirk Weekend Advertiser, Oct 4, 2007

Letters from William Bonnar, Dr Lesley Morrison and Alexander Mackay - The Herald, 5 October

Andreas was not in fact rescued or treated for shock. Read his own account of the incident in the comments, no. 16, following the Scotsman account.
- BBC Scotland, 4 October

Note: Andreas was in fact not pulled out of the water or treated for shock. To read his own account of the incident scroll down to comment no. 16.
- The Scotsman, 4 October

Police arrested over 160 peace protesters yesterday as they marked the end of the year-long Faslane 365 campaign at the Scottish nuclear submarine base.
- Morning Star, 2 October

BORDERS minister Samuel Siroky was arrested campaigning against nuclear weapons at Faslane on Monday.
- The Southern Reporter, 4 October

Nine peace protesters from Leicestershire were among 171 people arrested after laying siege to the home of Britain's nuclear deterrent.
Leicester & Mercury, 2 October

Scores of people were arrested Monday as police moved on hundreds of anti-nuclear protestors at a submarine base in Scotland gathered for the culmination of a year-long campaign.
AFP, 2 October

Protestors have managed to close the Faslane naval base in Scotland by surprising the police with a combination of superglue and paint.
- UK Indymedia, 2 October

Rolled razor wire featured in both: in the barricaded streets of Rangoon,...and atop the imposing perimeter fence at Faslane.
Ruth Wishart writing in The Herald, 2 October

A group of anti-nuclear protestors from Northampton were arrested after taking part in demonstrations against the trident missile program....
- Northampton Chronicle, 4 October

Sitting in a police cell on a concrete slab (albeit topped by a plastic-covered "mattress"), as I was on October 1, at least allows some pause for thought.
- The Herald, 4 October

News article plus BBC News Scotland video "Protesters Rush Police" - 1st October

So where to start? At the very beginning...Or the end? Having just sung "You Can't Kill the Spirit" as we processed out of the final circle...
-Greenpeace Website, 1st October

IT HAS lasted a year, cost police and taxpayers £5 million and has resulted in 1,110 arrests. But the wider impact of the Faslane 365 protests ...
- The Scotsman, 2nd October