Press Releases & Updates 2006

Morag Balfour from Glenrothes, a member of the Iona Community and Co-chair of the Scottish Socialist Party, and Barbara Dowling, a retired local government officer from Glasgow, painting "Baby Jesus hates bombs" and "Peace, Joy" on surfaces at the Kibble roundabout at the main entrance of the base. They were charged with malicious mischief.

Earlier yesterday two activists who blockaded the same base on 25th July, causing disruption for over five hours, were each fined £150 at Helensburgh District Court for a breach of the peace. Roz Bullen and Micah Barrett, both from Edinburgh, were pleased that a lengthy statement which they passed to police officers at the time of their arrest was read out in court and in full.

The statement described how Trident, Trident Replacement, and any new nuclear weapons system would encourage global instability and proliferation as well as further tie UK foreign policy to the US. It called for disarmament of Trident and for the abandonment of any ideas of mini-nukes or other replacement WMD system.

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