Press Releases & Updates 2001

The convoy, comprising three trucks loaded with Trident nuclear warheads and a number of support vehicles, was tracked by Nukewatch from the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Burghfield (which it left on Tuesday) to RAF Wittering, where it stayed overnight. It was picked up again on the M74 and tracked to Stirling. The activists intercepted it just a mile beyond Stirling, got underneath the vehicles and held it up for between 20 and 30 minutes. Motorists who were detained in the queues were patient and understanding when campaigners explained what was going on.

Among those arrested were Trident Three member Ulla Roder(45), from Denmark, Niels de Boer (27) from the Netherlands, people from Faslane Peace Camp and others from north and south of the border. They are being held in Stirling Police station and are expected to be released later this evening.

Helesburgh Nukewatch member, Eric Wallace, who was present but not arrested said: "It was good that folk held up in the traffic jam were supportive of what we were doing and accepted that the situation was so serious that we had to act. We will continue to take action against these appalling transports until the last warhead is taken back to Aldermaston and safely dismantled."

[Update: All those arrested were kept in police cells until their 2pm appearance at Stirling Sheriff Court the next day. Each of them accepted bail conditions that they would not return to Stirling except for their court diets.]

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