Press Releases & Updates 1999

Early today, Tuesday 13th July 1999, four Trident Ploughshares 2000 activists from the Midlands were able to enter the "secure" Nuclear Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston in Berkshire, the secret factory involved in the research and manufacture of materials for nuclear missiles. The action signals the extension of the TP2000 campaign to Trident related sites in England and is a further embarrassment to the MOD following the incident on June 8th when TP2000 activists put out of action an unguarded Trident - related floating laboratory in Loch Goil.

The activists, Roger Franklin from Horsley, Sylvia Boyes from Birmingham, Marlene Yeo from Burton on the Wolds and Alison Crane from Stafford, all members of the TP2000 Midlands affinity group, had time to display banners before being arrested. They are being held by Newbury police while charges are formulated.

Alison Crane said:

"I have appealed to the Government and to the management at Aldermaston to take account of international law and abandon these weapons of mass destruction. I am now appealing to the people involved in their manufacture and maintenance to choose instead to help build a world free from the threat of nuclear annihilation."

Under the "No Hiding Place" principle on war criminals, the perimeter of the Aldermaston site is currently sporting posters identifying Robin Bradley, the factory’s Chief Executive, as indictable for his role in the manufacture of weapons of illegal weapons.

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