Anti-Nuclear Protesters Plan Blockade

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Anti-Nuclear Protesters Plan Blockade

By Chris Court, PA

Anti-nuclear protesters tomorrow plan to blockade Devonport Dockyard in Plymouth – where Trident nuclear submarines are refitted.

The action – which campaigners said will begin at 6.30am – will be taken by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Trident Ploughshares.

CND chair Kate Hudson will be at the day of action to issue the message that the refit programme must be ended, and the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons system must be scrapped and not be replaced.

The day of action is part of a weekend-long peace camp at Devil’s Point in Plymouth.

The protest is taking place exactly a week after Trident Ploughshares supporters occupied privately-owned Drake’s Island in Plymouth Sound to further their anti-nuclear message.

Yesterday, the squatters were ordered by a district judge to vacate the island – which they declared a nuclear-free state – by 3.45pm today.

A spokesman for the group said today they had left the island to set up the new camp on the mainland."