News index 2002

December

30th	Fylingdales Activists Charged
29th	Security Breached Again At RAF Fylingdales
23rd	One More Trident Fine as Campaigners Review a Year in the Courts
20th	HMS Vanguard Damaged in Devonport Accident
8th	Warm Welcome for CND Legal Challenge over Iraq War
4th	New Year Artists Fined at Helensburgh

29th	York Jury Finds Fylingdales Disarmers Guilty
29th	Nuclear Dockyard Puts Us In The Target Zone
28th	Fylingdales Judge Allows "Lawful Excuse" Defence
27th	Swedish Faslane Blockader Jailed
27th	"Early Warning Base Part of Trident System" Say Fylingdales Defendants
26th	Faslane Protesters Make Sure Trident is in the Dock
26th	Prosecution Claim "No Lawful Excuse" in Fylingdales Trial
25th	Direct Action Against Trident The Only Option
25th	Trial of Fylingdales disarmers begins
19th	"We’ll Go On Sounding Trident Alarm" Say Locals
18th	"WE WERE INSIDE TRIDENT SUB" SAY ACTIVISTS
18th	Another Faslane Protester Jailed
18th	Activists Board Trident Submarine Undetected
17th	Activists Remain In Custody As Peace Campaigners Demonstrate Outside Police Station
16th	PEACE CAMPAIGNERS BOARD TRIDENT NUCLEAR SUBMARINE UNDETECTED AND RING SHIPS BELL
15th	Peace Campaigners Gather In Plymouth
13th	Helensburgh Court Not Interested In Trident Or The Law
12th	Bishop Backs Peace Campaign
12th	Aamer Anwar Criticises Crown for Prosecuting Peaceful Protester
11th	Protester Acquitted After "Possession but no deployment" Claim
4th	Get Down To Devonport - Block The Dock!!

29th	Protester Accuses Court of Making a Mockery of the Law
29th	"Don’t Fire Trident At Iraq"
28th	More Appeals as Helensburgh Continues to Ignore High Court
22nd	Further Confusion Over Faslane Court Cases
15th	Faslane Acquittal First Dividend of Sheridan Appeal
9th	Tommy Sheridan Acquittal Valid Say Law Lords
8th	Woman Fined for Stopping Nuke Convoy in Glen Fruin
2nd	Peace Activist Challenges Faslane to Produce its Nuclear Licence
1st	Kirk Minister Acquitted on Faslane Charge

25th	AWE Aldermaston Fails To Produce Bomb Making Licence
23rd	Activist Fined for Stopping Royal Minibus
13th	Legal Challenge To Protest Law
11th	A Better Court Day for Anti-Trident Campaigners
10th	Hereford Protester Found ’Not Guilty’
6th	Symbolic disarmament spray-painting U.S. warplane in Ireland
4th	Protesters Fined for Halting Transport of Weapons of Mass Destruction
3rd	Hefty Fine for Faslane Blockader
2nd	Trident Activists Arrested In Bid For "Maximum Disarmament Of Nuke Sub In Plymouth"

27th	Fresh Accusations of District Court Ineptitude and Bias
26th	Trident is Genocide, Claims Faslane Blockader
25th	Disarmer refused to pay to hide weapons of mass destruction still at liberty
23rd	Statement on the AWE Site Development Strategy Plan
22nd	Ulla Roder Deportation Threat Evaporates
21st	Ulla Roder Acquitted on Malicious Mischief Charge
20th	Ulla Roder and February Blockaders on Trial Today
19th	International Disarmament Camp at Coulport, Scotland
18th	Campaigners Take Stock and Look Ahead
18th	Coulport Camp Updates
15th	Public Gallery Cleared as Activists Appear in Court
14th	"Protecting the Species" Action Day
13th	Devonport Seven Denied Justice
13th	"Breaching the War" at Coulport and in Court
12th	More Arrests at Faslane as Campaigners Slam UK Government Hypocrisy
12th	Dumbarton Sheriff Says Faslane Blockader Did Not Breach Peace
9th	Peace and Hope festival to follow week of commemoration
8th	Faslane security breached again as protesters paint on Trident
8th	Released Trident Swimmer Tells of Sub-Painting Exploit
6th	"Don’t Fire Trident at Iraq!"
6th	Hiroshima Day commemorated at Devonport
6th	Trident Ploughshares and Voices In The Wilderness Shut Faslane Main Gate
5th	Trident Ploughshares Blockade Faslane
2nd	Renowned Peace Activist Jailed
1st	The hippies are back! Coulport caught out early!

31st	More Fines For Faslane Objectors as MSP Backs Blockade on Monday
30th	More protesters in court as anti-Trident campaigners gear up for two weeks of action
23rd	Two Weeks of Disarmament Action at Faslane and Coulport in August
7th	Granny Jailed For Hiroshima Day Protest

25th	Tommy Sheridan Faslane Acquittal is Step Forward, Claim Activists
24th	"We put our bodies where our hearts are" says Faslane Blockader
18th	"We’ll Be Back!" Promise Activists As Aldermaston Camp Ends
18th	Scottish Parliament Demonstrator Admonished
17th	Activists Enter Aldermaston As News Breaks Of New Bomb Factory
16th	Blair Hijacks World Peace Process With Plans For New Illegal Nuclear Bomb Factory
14th	Local Support Grows For Anti-Nuclear Campaign
13th	Political Messages Of Support Continue To Flood In For Anti-Nuclear Campaigners
12th	20th Birthday of Faslane Peace Camp: Activists Enter Base
11th	Grandmother Jailed for Faslane Protest
11th	Scottish High Court Finds Helensburgh Court All at Sea Again
10th	District Court Rejects Lloyd Quinan’s Human Rights Submission in Faslane Case
6th	Protesters Act to Halt Nuclear Crime at AWE Aldermaston

31st	Faslane Blockader Committed No Crime, Says Sheriff
22nd	Protester Wins Rare Appeal Court Hearing
17th	Bailiffs Again for Cromer Peace Activist
17th	Crown fails to notice the war at Devonport Trident case
14th	Former Magistrate Fined For Faslane Blockade
13th	Kirk Minister Says No to Faslane Fine
10th	Peaceful Protests Continue at Faslane Naval Base
8th	Granny Fined For Hiroshima Day Protest
7th	Bingley Magistrates Jail Peace Activist
1st	Overwhelmed by the taste of porridge
1st	21 days for Veteran Peace Campaigner

23rd	Newcastle Activists Fined for Cutting Fence at Nuclear Warhead Depot
22nd	Key High Court Appellant Fined for Faslane Protest
17th	Two More Faslane Protesters Fined
10th	Helen Pays Her "Sub"
8th	Warrants Issued After Big Blockaders Snub Scottish Court

28th	Caroline Pays Her ’Sub’
28th	Ulla Roder Admonished and Freed
27th	Second �200 Fine Within a Month For Faslane Protester
25th	Angie Zelter Will Pay Fine "When UK Acts on Disarmament Promise"
18th	Mass Destruction Weapon Convoy Stopped in Scotland
11th	New Faslane Trial Date Set For George Galloway
6th	70 Year Old Faslane Blockader Defies Scottish Court
4th	Trident Swimmer Jailed for 34 Days

27th	Faslane Protester "Eloquent but Guilty"
25th	Faslane Protester Quotes Tony Blair in Court
22nd	TP Pledger Margaret Jones gets 40 days
18th	Bail Conditions Relaxed for Devonport Protesters
15th	Ulla Roder Remanded For 5 Weeks
14th	Faslane Blockader Accuses Court of Abuse of Process
13th	8 week old baby and mother arrested at Faslane
13th	"We’ll be back!" say Faslane Blockaders
12th	Peaceful protest continues at Faslane nuclear base
12th	Main Gate to Faslane nuclear base still closed
11th	Three day Faslane blockade off to a flying start
11th	500 protestors, 113 arrests
11th	Block ’n’ Roll 2002
11th	Politicians held in Trident protest
6th	Crown Admits Defeat on Scottish Parliament Demo Cases
3rd	Clergy Court Prison Over Nuclear Base
3rd	Seven Arrested in Devonport Anti-Trident Protest

30th	Sheriff Says Sit-Down At Faslane Not A Crime
30th	Pensioner Sent Down For Peace Action
28th	Artist for Peace Fined
23rd	Scottish Magistrate Waives Fine Imposed on anti-Trident Activist
22nd	Big Blockade Case Against Buddhist Monk Dropped for Lack of Interpreter
20th	River In Deep Water Again
15th	No Deportation For Ulla Roder
14th	Another Big Blockader Fined
11th	Newbury Magistrates Court Update
10th	Ulla Roder Fined For Stirling Convoy Action

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