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26/05/2007 Press link

Faith protest at naval base

A series of faith-based protests are being staged at the naval base where Britain's nuclear submarine fleet is based.... A religious service is being held there. On Sunday,... Footprints for Peace interfaith walk will ... head for the base. - Berwickshire News, 26 May

26/05/2007 Press link

Faith protest at naval base

A series of faith-based protests are being staged at the naval base where Britain's nuclear submarine fleet is based. - icLanarkshire, 26 May

26/05/2007 Press link

Faith protest at naval base

A series of faith-based protests are being staged at the naval base where Britain's nuclear submarine fleet is based....On Sunday,... Footprints for Peace interfaith walk will... head for the base.

26/05/2007 Press link

Faith-based protests at Faslane

A series of faith-based protests against nuclear weapons is taking place at Faslane naval base on the Clyde over the bank holiday weekend.
- BBC News, 26 May

25/05/2007 Press link

Retired GP returns to double arrest scene

A RETIRED Taunton GP is heading to Scotland on Friday to revisit the scene where he has been arrested twice within the past year. - 20 May, Somerset County Gazette

25/05/2007 Press link

Pensioner protester locked up overnight

An 80-year-old anti-nuclear protester who was held overnight in a police cell after being arrested outside Faslane naval base has spoken of her resolve to continue opposing Trident. - The Herald, 25 M

25/05/2007 Press link

Protesters take action at Derby nuclear plant

Protesters take action at Derby nuclear plant on the 21st anniversary of Chernobyl, in solidarity with Faslane365 Environmentalist blockade.
- UK Indymedia, 26 April

24/05/2007 Press link

Protestors' exam pledge

Peace campaigners claim they are working together to make sure anti-nuclear blockades don’t stop youngsters getting to school for all-important exams. - Helensburgh Advertiser, 24 May

17/05/2007 Press link

Scottish Christians to Say No to Nuclear Weapons

Christians from across Scotland will celebrate Pentecost this year with a prayer and hymn gathering at the Faslane nuclear weapons base as part of an ongoing church-wide effort...Christian Today, 16 M

14/05/2007 Press link

Remains of hippy discovered in Peace Camp hole

HELENSBURGH, Scotland - The remains of a body estimated to have lain for 25 years in a hole at Faslane Peace Camp opposite the Trident nuclear submarine base, has been discovered. - 10 May, The Spoof

14/05/2007 Press link

Eviction threat at Faslane as locals go to war

Demonstrators living at Britain's longest-running peace camp are discovering what it is like being on the receiving end of a protest movement. - The Observer, 13 May

08/05/2007 Press link

Get Myself Arrested

I’ve never actively campaigned for a good cause. I’ve never spent a week in a tunnel demonstrating against a bypass. I’ve never camped for six years outside of Parliament ... And neither have I been arrested for my efforts.

08/05/2007 Press link

Residents to stage second demo over Trident activists

People living in the vicinity of the submarine base housing the UK's nuclear arsenal are staging a second protest against peace activists they insist are disrupting their daily lives. TheHerald, 8 May

08/05/2007 Press link

60 in demo against Faslane protests

MORE than 60 residents living in the vicinity of the Clyde Submarine Base at Faslane have staged a protest march to demonstrate against the disruption caused by peace activists. - Evening Times, 8 May

07/05/2007 Press link

Peace camp protest by residents

Residents living near the Faslane nuclear submarine base have held a demonstration against the ongoing peace protests there. - BBC News UK, 7 May

06/05/2007 Press link

School bus safety fears

PARENTS of Peninsula school kids say plans to re-route school buses over the Haul Road to avoid protester road blocks could put their children in danger. - Helensburgh Advertiser, 3 May.

06/05/2007 Press link

Pupils fear missing exams as nuclear protest forces them on 20-mile detour to school

HUNDREDS of children fear they will miss their exams due to anti-nuclear protesters blocking a road. - Sunday Mail, 6 May

03/05/2007 Press link

Scottish parties go nuclear in poll campaign

“Trident will be my top priority in deciding who I vote for on May 3,” says Jane Tallents, who lived at the site 34 miles from Glasgow between 1984 and 1990. The Peninsula, (Quatar), 3 May

20/04/2007 Press link

Grandmothers are arrested during protest at Trident base

THREE members of Hexham-based Northumbrians for Peace – two of them grandmothers – were arrested on Friday ... outside the Trident nuclear submarine base in Scotland. - Hexham Courant, 20 April

18/04/2007 Press link

Fears of independent Scotland prompt defence chiefs to seek a base south of the Border

The member for North Wiltshire pointed out that in a Scottish Parliament with an SNP majority it was possible there would be a non-nuclear Scotland. He added: "In which case, a submarine-based deterrent would not be possible.

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