Press Releases & Updates 2005
7th September 2005
UK Nuclear Weapon Depot Blockaded for Two Hours
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This morning peace activists blockaded the nuclear weapon depot at Coulport on Loch Long, hampering day-shift worker traffic entering the base to a trickle and stopping it completely for almost an hour.
Policeman Joins the Lock-On
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At 7 a.m. a group of 6 women lay down in the main entrance to the base and locked on to each other using plastic pipes. At the same time another group blocked the alternative entrance to the depot known as the Construction Gate using a tripod.
 Up the Tripod
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After a complex cutting out operation the police arrested and took into custody the six women at the main gate. They are: Pippa Robertson from Aberdeen; Carol Livingstone from Paisley; Angie Zelter from Cromer in Norfolk; Jane Smith from Grantown on Spey; Jane Tallents from Helensburgh; Sue Hushing-Tree from London. A little later the police assembled scaffolding and removed Andrew Simpson from Glasgow who was also arrested.
Getting Carried Away
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The aim of the activists was to disrupt the work of a base whose operation they is illegal under international law, and to draw attention to the reality of the UK’s weapons of mass destruction.
Trident nuclear warheads are stored in Coulport’s bunkers and loaded there onto the missiles on the submarines.
For more information and for printable quality photos contact the Trident Ploughshares camp on 08454588361 or 07876593016
For background information on the UK’s weapons of mass destruction see:
here
Last updated: 7th September 2005
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