Press Coverage

CONGRESBURY doctor who believes the Government is acting 'illegally and foolishly' is fully expecting to get arrested at an anti-nuclear protest in Scotland. - The Weston Mercury, 26 June

Peace campers are at loggerheads with Peninsula residents over claims that they plan to camp in a graveyard. - Helensburgh Advertiser, 21 June 2007

SCOTLAND'S most controversial campsite celebrated a landmark anniversary this week with a special visit from one of its founding members.
- Helensburgh Advertiser, 19 June

At a packed meeting in Central London on Saturday, Pax Christi members and supporters honoured and acknowledged the work of six peacemakers of our time whose work spans from Northern Ireland to Iraq and the UK.

A CHARITY worker from Stoke Newington was arrested after protesting against the £20 billion plans to renew the UK's nuclear missile system. John Rowley, 63, of Carysfort Road ... - Hackney Gazette,

Report in the Sheffield Star

Gran lays down the law
Paul R Taylor
15/ 6/2007

A WOMAN of 89 has been arrested for the first time in 60 years of campaigning against nuclear weapons.

Great grandmother Betty Tebbs, from Prestwich, used thumbcuffs to lock herself to other Manchester CND members and lay on the road outside the Trident nuclear submarine base at Faslane, near Glasgow.

Local peace campaigners, Pat Sanchez, Rae Street and Mai Chatham will set off for Scotland next week to join the blockade of the Faslane submarine base, which is home to the Trident nuclear missile system.

A VETERAN peace campaigner is to spearhead a fresh challenge to ban the bomb - at the age of 89.

Betty Tebbs, from Prestwich, will join a group of CND activitists from across Greater Manchester in a bid to blockade the Trident nuclear base at Faslane in Scotland on June 12.

Bridgwater Mercury article on Somerset Quakers F365 25-26 May

A RETIRED Taunton GP is heading to Scotland on Friday to revisit the scene where he has been arrested twice within the past year.
prior to F365 days 25-26 May.

A group of 28 Anglican and Roman Catholic ordinands, Methodist ministerial candidates and staff from four theological colleges will ...witness against Britain’s Trident weapons on Sunday 10 June (10am-4pm).

A SEASONED peace campaigner is to spearhead a fresh challenge to ban the bomb - at the age of 89. Betty Tebbs,...will join a group of CND activists...
- This Is Lancashire, 7 June

...Roger Lloyd Pack, who starred in Only Fools and Horses and The Vicar Of Dibley, spoke out at an organised protest at the nuclear submarine base in Argyll. - The Scotsman, 7 June

Only Fools And Horses actor Roger Lloyd Pack today backed a campaign to stop ...Trident.
- Metro, 5 June

A group of trainee priests and ministers, supported by their theological colleges, will risk arrest next weekend as they protest against ...Trident.
- Ekklesia, 31 May

Bernie Meyers of Olympia and a priest from Tacoma were among those arrested during a peace protest Tuesday at Faslane Naval Base near Glasgow, Scotland, a news release says.
- The Olympian, 30 May

A GROUP of four Somerset Quakers are back home after protesting at the gates of Faslane submarine base, in Scotland, on Friday and Saturday.
- 29 May, 2007

Anglican pentecost service at Faslane Gate & SCND Scotland & Trident conference featured in this BBC newsclip.

I read with interest Barbara Green's account of her arrest ... Had nobody informed Ms Green that to obstruct ... citizens ... lawful business... is... likely to lead to arrest? - The Herald, 27 May